Angelo Morino Book order (chronological)

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

Che Guevara's last diary, discovered after his capture by the Bolivian Army in 1967, features an introduction by Fidel Castro and significantly contributed to Guevara's posthumous iconic status.

An old man and his childhood sweetheart are united for the first time resulting in the consummation of an amor interruptus that spans half a century. This uplifting love story is set on the Colombian coast in the early 20th century.

A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

Molto amato e molto letto in Italia e nei molti paesi in cui è stato tradotto, Una frase, un rigo appena racconta una storia di desiderio. Intorno a un vitellone di provincia (uno sperduto paese della Pampa argentina, anni Trenta) roso dalla tisi e il cui unico pregio è una maschia bellezza da divo del cinema, si muovono le sue donne: la fidanzata, le amanti, la madre, la sorella. Un'umanità femminile che intesse trame e spera di vivere secondo i canoni della letteratura rosa, delle canzonette di successo (da un ritornello di un celebre tango è tratto il titolo), delle più fascinose pellicole d'epoca. Ma non riesce inevitabilmente che a tingere di velleitarismo e tragicomico la sua miseria vera e quotidiana, fino all'esito scontato del risentimento e della frustrazione: il delitto. Il tema del desiderio distorto dalla subcultura di massa, in cui è costretto a germinare, è un tema classico di Puig, a dare efficacia maggiore al quale lo scrittore argentino adotta qui uno stile che intende riprodurre fedelmente i documenti naturali che la vita e le tragedie quotidiane lasciano come detriti: lettere, album di fotografie, rapporti di polizia, trasmissioni radio: tracce di esistenza intersecate da dialoghi che un orecchio imperturbabile e impietoso registra. Uno stile al quale la nuova traduzione di Angelo Morino restituisce le sfumature, il colore e il calore.

This text narrates the kidnapping of Maruja, a well-connected journalist in her 50s living in Botoga, and of her sister-in-law, Beatriz, by the gangs run by Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin drug cartel, and one of the richest men in the world.

Set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18-century colonial Colombia, this is the story of Sierva Maria and the priest Cayetano Delaura, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction.

Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his 'Aunt Julia', the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials.

The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father leaving Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an ageing streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling.

Nobel Prize winning author of Òne hundred years of solitude' recreates the final voyage of the greatest political figure in modern South American history - Simon Bolivar

INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE LOVER A captivating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our time Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carl�, Eva answers his request for a story 'you have never told anyone before' with these twenty-three samples of her vibrant artistry. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance, compassion and female power, creating a world that is at once poignantly familiar and intriguingly new. Rendered in her sumptuously imagined, uniquely lyrical style, The Stories of Eva Luna is a cornerstone of Isabel Allende's work. This treasure trove of brilliantly crafted stories is a superb example of a writer working at the height of her powers. 'Eva Luna's stories are delicate, their images akin to poetry . . . Perfectly craftedand thematically rich' Barbara Kingsolver 'Vital and compelling' The Times 'Arresting and altogether distinctive, powerful and haunting; a collection to be read aloud and repeated for generations' Los Angeles Times 'Enchanting, magnificent. Absolute magic on every level' Cosmopolitan

A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa offers not just a brilliant psychological portrait, but also a searing account of Latin America's political scene.