Anne McLean
Author
Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
2) Until August
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
Author
Series
Terra Alta novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a policeman. Now he has...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. A man is arrested at a museum in Colombia for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of an assassin. The incident barely makes the news though the political murder this assassin committed years before...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives:...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing--but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a countryside...
8) Reputations
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco's army. Who was this...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction"--
14) The Tango singer
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The best history book at the year"--Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Times Literary Supplement (UK).
"A masterpiece of twenty-first-century European Literature."--Jordi Gracia, El Pais.
In February 1981, Spain, still emerging from Franco's shadow, was in the process of electing a new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering...
18) Way far away
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as "one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades." In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jeremías Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of a rotten hotel and the dwarf who always accompanies her; children who play with...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of Colombia's history and society. His magnificent Stranger to the Moon portrays a world that seems to exist outside history and geography, but taps into the dark myths and collective subconscious of his country's harrowing inequality and violence. A parable of pointed social criticism, with naked humans imprisoned in a house to serve the needs of "the vicious clothed-ones,"...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1539
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Visited by his friend (a kind of Colombian Rasputin) seemingly at the verge of death, the writer, Eri, looks back on the arc of both of their lives. Unique in both its tone and its structure, the novel takes us from their student days (school fights, playground revela- tions, and an unforgettable trip to the seaside) into their adult years, involving rumors of a hippie cult and a bizarre raucous theater exhibit of history's most violent crimes. Toño...