Aline Glastra van Loon Books

Set against the backdrop of New Year's Eve 1975, two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, embark on a quest from Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala to find the elusive Cesárea Tinajero, a vanished poet. Their journey takes a violent turn in the Sonora desert, forcing them into a life on the run for twenty years. This ambitious novel captures their experiences through the perspectives of various characters they encounter across Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. Among them are the enchanting Font sisters, their father in a Mexico City asylum, a devoted follower of Octavio Paz, a brash American grad student, a French girl with a penchant for the Marquis de Sade, the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky, a Chilean stowaway gifted with numbers, an anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire, and an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola, alongside a host of critics, lovers, and vagabonds. Roberto Bolaño, a literary descendant of Borges and Pynchon, explores the intricate relationship between literature and violence, revealing a world where national boundaries blur and death is ever-present in the avant-garde. This work stands as a remarkable testament to the vitality of contemporary Latin American literature.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

Publisher's description. From one of Spain's most acclaimed literary voices comes a rich and complex portrait of mutual deception, toxic love and cruel, lingering guilt. A youth caught in the middle of someone else's bitter marriage; a beautiful woman scorned; a man torn between conscience and will. Step into the melancholic, unforgiving world of Javier Marías. Penguin

This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Colombia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction.

Mario Vargas Llosa, geboren 1936 in Arequipa/Peru, studierte Geistes- und Rechtswissenschaften in Lima und Madrid. Während seines Studiums begann er, für verschiedene Zeitschriften zu schreiben und veröffentlichte erste Erzählungen. 1963 erschien sein erster Roman. Der peruanische Romanautor und Essayist ist als politischer Autor bekannt und hat auch international großen Erfolg. Zu seinen bedeutendsten Werken zählen mehrere Romane, die sich mit gesellschaftlichen und politischen Themen auseinandersetzen. Vargas Llosa ist Ehrendoktor mehrerer Universitäten in Amerika und Europa und hat Gastprofessuren an renommierten Institutionen wie Harvard und Oxford gehalten. 1990 kandidierte er für die oppositionelle Frente Democrático (FREDEMO) bei den peruanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen, unterlag jedoch in der Stichwahl und zog sich danach aus der aktiven Politik zurück. Er erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1996 und den Nobelpreis für Literatur 2010. Heute lebt er in Madrid und Lima. Elke Wehr, geboren 1946 in Bautzen und verstorben 2008 in Berlin, studierte Romanistik und konzentrierte sich auf die Übersetzung spanischer und lateinamerikanischer Prosa ins Deutsche. Sie lebte in Madrid und Berlin.

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crimes and his redeeming characteristics.

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear.

Every day, Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. And every day she watches a couple following the same routine. Then one day they aren't there. She comes across a photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street. When the woman returns with her children, who are then collected by a different man, a new light is shed on the death."

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duke's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duke will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands - ever the fool for a pretty face - vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.

Autobiografisch getint relaas van de speurtocht van een Argentijnse jongeman in de jaren '50 naar het Europa van zijn ouders.