A 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.
Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltran works as a magazine journalist--a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist emigres. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team--and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice--and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them. Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, "Of Love and Shadows" is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist--and peopled with those who dare to challenge it.
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.
Monsieur Pain is a hallucinatory masterpiece by Roberto Bolano, exploring themes of hopeless love, desperate grief, and the power of guilt.
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence, since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?
'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination - as real for him as memories - he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.
Inventeur d'une vision de la réalité, d'un ton et d'une manière inédits dans la littérature sud-américaine, Manuel Puig a inauguré, avec Le plus beau tango du monde, une véritable rhétorique du cliché, des lieux communs du langage et du comportement, pour mieux percer le subconscient collectif d'un pays - l'Argentine - et d'une époque - les années 1940.
This is a collection of stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, most of which are fables. It includes Leaf Storm, a tale about a week-long South American rainstorm, and the story of a tarry angel who crash-lands in a village and is kept in a hencoop.
Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping is a gripping retelling of real events during a turbulent period in Colombian history. The narrative centers around Pablo Escobar, a billionaire drug lord known for his ruthless tactics and influence in the international drug trade, as well as his charitable work that garnered him significant power in Colombia. Facing the threat of extradition to the U.S. under the new Colombian President, Escobar resorted to kidnapping as a means of negotiation. In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians, primarily women, were taken hostage in Escobar's desperate attempt to prevent his extradition. The harrowing experiences of the hostages, two of whom died while the others survived, are vividly recounted by Márquez, capturing the terror and uncertainty of those dark months. The work has been praised for its urgency and compelling readability, blending elements of investigative journalism with Márquez's signature magical storytelling. As a pioneer of magic realism and a leading voice in Latin American literature, Márquez has received international acclaim for his diverse body of work, including novels, non-fiction, and short stories, many of which have been translated and published by Penguin.
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
Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan - his philosophy of life. The Reeveses settle in a Mexican barrio outside Los Angeles, awaiting Charles death. His son, Greg, is left to explore the truth of the "Plan". By the author of "Eva Luna" and "Of Love and Shadows".
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.
