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Libros de Hispanic fiction 73 resultados

  • ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
    ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
    GARCÍA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. ...
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    Q. 80

  • DON QUIXOTE (ENGLISH)
    DON QUIXOTE (ENGLISH)
    DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL / RUTHERFORD, JOHN / GONZÁLEZ ECHEVARRÍA, ROBERTO
    Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadDon Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them...
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    Q. 180

  • COLLECTED FICTIONS
    COLLECTED FICTIONS
    JORGE LUIS BORGES
    For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume“An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper  For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of...
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    Q. 300

  • LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
    LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
    ESQUIVEL, LAURA
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's w...
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    Q. 180

  • HOPSCOTCH
    HOPSCOTCH
    CORTÁZAR, JULIO / RABASSA, GREGORY
    Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A child’s death and La Maga’s disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a ke...
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    Q. 200

  • BLOW-UP
    BLOW-UP
    CORTÁZAR, JULIO
    A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . .Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows ...
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    Q. 180

  • DISCREET HERO
    DISCREET HERO
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires—which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surrou...
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  • AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER
    AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-m...
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    Q. 220

  • THE BAD GIRL
    THE BAD GIRL
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese busi...
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  • THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD
    THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...
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    Q. 310

  • THE DREAM OF THE CELT
    THE DREAM OF THE CELT
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world. But when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cau...
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    Q. 250

  • MY INVENTED COUNTRY
    MY INVENTED COUNTRY
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    In this wondrous and intimate book, Isabel Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. My Invented Country brings her homeland of Chile to life in her unique voice, evoking the magnificent landscapes of her land, the almost mythic people of her family; the tragedy and hope of her peo...
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    Q. 200

  • THE SUM OF OUR DAYS
    THE SUM OF OUR DAYS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    In this powerful memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her life after the death of her daughter, Paula. But The Sum of Our Days is not a tragedy; narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, it is a remarkable story of life that is as exuberant and passionate as Allende herself. Baring her soul, Allende reflects on love, marriage, motherhood...
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    Q. 190

  • PORTRAIT IN SEPIA
    PORTRAIT IN SEPIA
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    After suffering a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle cannot remember the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal Paulina del Valle, she enjoys a life of privilege. Yet nothing offers protection from the horrible nightmares that torment her. When she is betrayed by the man she loves, Aurora, bereft and alone, decides to unravel the tangled myste...
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    Q. 220

  • LEAF STORM
    LEAF STORM
    GARCÍA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
    Contains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo ...
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    Q. 170

  • THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN
    THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN
    RUIZ ZAFÓN, CARLOS
    Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.“Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge...
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    Q. 290

  • THE TIME IN BETWEEN
    THE TIME IN BETWEEN
    DUEÑAS, MARÍA
    The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Between youth and adulthood...At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietl...
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  • THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
    THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
    ROBERTO BOLAÑO
    This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world. ...
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    Q. 240

  • OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
    OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist—and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the op...
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    Q. 190

  • EVA LUNA (ENGLISH)
    EVA LUNA (ENGLISH)
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all s...
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    Q. 190

  • FAMILY LORE
    FAMILY LORE
    ACEVEDO, ELIZABETH
    A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel PrizeFrom National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its womenFlor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her fami...
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    Q. 190

  • TENDER IS THE FLESH
    TENDER IS THE FLESH
    BAZTERRICA, AGUSTINA
    Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans--though no one calls them that anymore.His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to huma...
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    Q. 190

  • THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
    THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
    BORGES, JORGE LUIS
    "Erudite and whimsical, a model handbook of fantastic zoology." -Michael Dirda, The Washington PostIn a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Mo...
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    Q. 200

  • THE MANIAC
    THE MANIAC
    BENJAMÍN LABATUT
    Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction“Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thr...
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    Q. 140

  • A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE
    A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE
    ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA
    A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)“Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams“A collection of brilliant nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay“As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.”—Minneapolis Star-TribuneOne of the M...
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    Q. 200

  • BY NIGHT IN CHILE
    BY NIGHT IN CHILE
    ROBERTO BOLAÑO
    “Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times The book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix—Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, eminent literary critic and failed poet—as he is haunted by a shadowy figure from his past. In Urrutia’s feverish ...
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    Q. 170

  • THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
    THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
    ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA
    The “propulsive and mesmerizing” (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night—now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: “The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro“Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel sp...
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    Q. 180

  • NEVER DID THE FIRE
    NEVER DID THE FIRE
    DIAMELA ELTIT / HAHN, DANIEL
    What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job cari...
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    Q. 175

  • THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED
    THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED
    ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA
    "Originally published in Spain as Los peligros de fumar en la cama by Editorial Anagrama in Barcelona, Spain, 2017." ...
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    Q. 180

  • VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION]
    VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION]
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    ABOUT VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION]NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Marie Cla...
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    Q. 120