Popular Adult Titles: Latin American Literature

**Disparos, Los ISBN/Cat.# 976815649X
Stanley, Avelino
Dominican Republic, 1998
73 pages
$10.95
The Gunshots. Twelve stories that convey the reality of the neighbourhood, its survival and the fanaticism that turns every social activity into dogma. Avelino Stanley (Santo Domingo 1959) is one of the Dominican Republic's most esteemed contemporary voices.
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**Doce cuentos peregrinos ISBN/Cat.# 8401242312
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
223 pages
$7.95
Twelve Pilgrim Stories is a new book of twelve short stories by García Márquez. In these short stories Márquez has traveled outside of Macondo, the fictional Colombian town which has been the setting of most of his stories and novels, to Europe.
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*Donde habitan los ángeles ISBN/Cat.# 9687791195
Celis, Claudia
Mexico, 1997
124 pages
$11.95
Where Angels Dwell is a moving novelistic testimony in which the reader is presented with a moving, contemporary Mexican portrayal of death, loss, and recovery. Finalist in the Gran Aguilar Prize for narrative.
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*Dos fantasías memorables/Modulo para la muerte, Un ISBN/Cat.# 9500418320
Borges, J.L. & Casares, A.B.
Argentina, 1998
126 pages
$14.95
Two Memorable Fantasies is the wonderful collaboration of two great literary minds working together, Borges and Bioy Casares. Together they are known as Bustos Domecq and Two Memorable Fantasies is memorable indeed.
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**Dueño del mar, El ISBN/Cat.# 9681654862
Sarney, José
Mexico, 1997
348 pages
$16.95
The Lord of the Sea is a brilliant new translation of this contemporary Brazilian novel centered around the mystical world of fishermen on the Brazilian coast. Sarney's powerful and eloquent prose is skillfully blends legend and reality.
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**Duendes en la noche ISBN/Cat.# 848953960X
Phipps Cueto, Miguel
Dominican Republic, 1998
86 pages
$12.95
Owners of the Night is a remarkable collection of stories reflecting the culture and daily life of the people of the Dominican Republic.
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*Dulce compañía ISBN/Cat.# 9700507394
Restrepo, Laura
Mexico, 1997
215 pages
$15.95
Sweet Company. A magnificent novel from this Colombian author, written in the form of a journalistic report about an angel's apparition, and the violence which shook a Bogotá neighborhood.
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*Ella amaba el tango ISBN/Cat.# 9700508692
Garrido, Manuel S.
Mexico, 1998
205 pages
$14.95
She Loved the Tango is a Chilean novel about love, dance, and passion in the forties and fifties, when the Tango was at a highpoint.
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*Ella cantaba boleros ISBN/Cat.# 0679768475
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
USA, 1996
309 pages
$14.95
Cabrera Infante's She Sang Boleros is an essential work from this prize-winning and highly esteemed Cuban novelist.
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En el tiempo de las mariposas ISBN/Cat.# 9500814463
Alvarez, Julia
Argentina, 1998
317 pages
$18.95
In Butterfly Time. The new novel by the Dominican author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accent. Nominated a Notable Book of 1995 by the American Library Association.
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**En este lugar sagrado ISBN/Cat.# 9700509621
Délano, Poli
Mexico, 1998
236 pages
$14.95
+In This Sacred Place is Poli Delano's most significant and powerful novel. The author uses both humor and tragedy to communicate his social criticism and commentary of Chile's recent history during the fall of the Allende government.
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En un lugar sin tiempo ISBN/Cat.# 9684098561
Alvarez, María
Mexico, 1996
249 pages
$15.95
In a Timeless Place is a novel of passionate love set the early 20th C. in pastoral Mexico, a loving reminescence of a time and place not forgotten.
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Enseñanzas de Don Juan ISBN/Cat.# 9681601696
Castaneda, Carlos
Mexico, 1997
303 pages
$15.95
Carlos Casteneda's classic work: The Teachings of Don Juan.
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*Erótica: Antología de cuentos (43 narradores en Jalisco) ISBN/Cat.# 9684099886
Levy, Elsa
Mexico, 1997
418 pages
$20.95
Erotica: Anthology of Stories is an excellent collection of erotic writings by several supurb authors from the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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Era del miedo, La ISBN/Cat.# ERADELMIED
Domínguez, Mario
El Salvador, 1995
172 pages
$9.95
The Age of Fear is the first book of short stories by this Salvadorean author. Includes drawings.
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Escrito en el cielo ISBN/Cat.# 9500815605
Engle, Margarita
Argentina, 1996
223 pages
$14.95
Skywriting evokes the mystery and paradox of Cuba. The story of a Cuban-American woman who meets her long lost brother and learns about her family history in the process.
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**Escritos varios sobre arte y poesía ISBN/Cat.# 9972663051
Westphalen, Emilio Adolfo
Mexico, 1996
435 pages
$25.95
Various Essays On Art and Poetry offers the essential critical essays of this renowned Peruvian poet and editor.
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**Evangelio según Jesucristo, El ISBN/Cat.# 8420484423
Saramago, José
Mexico, 1998
514 pages
$29.95
In The Gospel According to Jesus Christ this Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author interrogates, questions, and challenges religion and the figurehead whose laws dictate much of society.
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**Extraño en el puerto, Un ISBN/Cat.# 9681904478
Vásconez, Javier
Mexico, 1998
153 pages
$10.95
The seven short stories in A Stranger at the Port display the intense, exact, and subversive prose of one of Ecuador's most important contemporary writers.
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*Fábulas mitos cuenteria: Cuentos del velorio cubano ISBN/Cat.# 0941010120
Fernández, Javier
Spain, 1997
160 pages
$14.95
Cuban Myths, Fables, and Stories is a wonderful collection of Cuban culture for the adult or young adult reader. This playful selection of short stories is a great introduction to Cuban folk literature. With black and white illustrations.
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Fútbol, El: A sol y sombra ISBN/Cat.# 9682319714
Galeano, Eduardo
Mexico, 1995
271 pages
$16.95
Soccer, Rain or Shine is a collection of essays by the famed Uruguayan author about the region's favorite sport.
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Fascinación de la memoria ISBN/Cat.# 9591001517
Lezama Lima, José
Cuba, 1994
341 pages
$15.95
Fascination of Memory offers the gathered texts of the great Cuban writer José Lezama Lima with commentary by Cintio Vitier.
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Ficcionario: Una antología de sus textos ISBN/Cat.# 9681620283
Borges, Jorge Luís
Mexico, 1997
483 pages
$19.95
Fictionary. A selected anthology of the short stories by this great Argentine author.
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Filosofía para inconformes ISBN/Cat.# 9683913016
Borbolla, Oscar de la
Mexico, 1996
107 pages
$7.95
Philosophy for Nonconformists. A fatalistic but insightful guide to thinking about life for pessimists and rebels.
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**Flores negras ISBN/Cat.# 9681904362
Fuentes, Vilma
Mexico, 1998
265 pages
$12.95
This celebrated Mexican author brings us Black Flowers, a daring novel that challenges the absurd politics of a country that pretends to be democratic. It is a revealing character sketch of political power and those who hold it: politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and the upper class.
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**Francesa del café de Tacuba, La ISBN/Cat.# 9706331352
Prieto, Francisco
Mexico, 1998
304 pages
$18.95
Gabriel Sanz is wrongfully accused of the murder of The Frenchwoman from the Tabuca Café. A few decades later an industrialist confesses to the crime and offers all of his fortune to Sanz who is now a Dominican monk. An intriguing novel by the well known Mexican author.
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*Frivolidad ISBN/Cat.# 9507426116
Forn, Juan
Argentina, 1998
288 pages
$21.95
Frivolity is an original and beautifully constructed, contemporary novel by this up-and-coming Argentine writer, journalist, and essayist.
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**Funerales de la mamá grandre, Los ISBN/Cat.# 840142755X
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
166 pages
$7.95
The Funerals of Big Mama is a remarkable collection of seven short stories and one novella by Nobel prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez.
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*General, el pintor y la dama, El ISBN/Cat.# 9507427724
Miguel, María Ester de
Argentina, 1998
320 pages
$24.95
The General, the Painter, and the Lady is a moving portrait of love, desire, and rivalry in the oppressive years of the Rosas regime in Argentina.
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**General en su laberinto, El ISBN/Cat.# 8401427533
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
288 pages
$7.95
The General in His Labyrinth is a fictionalized account of the last days of Simón Bolívar's life by Colombia's award winning author. García Márquez combines reality and historical accounts with fantasy to illuminate the man who is considered to be Latin America's liberator.
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Guatemala: Las líneas de su mano ISBN/Cat.# LSF423
Cardoza y Aragón, Luis
Nicaragua, 1985
340 pages
$12.95
Guatemala: The Lines of Her Palm. A work without precedent, charged with metaphor, by one of Guatemala's best-known authors. A classic to be enjoyed and marveled over.
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**Hija de perra ISBN/Cat.# 9562601374
Urriola, Malú
Chile, 1998
61 pages
$12.95
In stream-of-consciousness, poetic prose this Chilean writer explores the concepts of contradictions, the solitude in dialogue, and compares the narrator to the twisted urban landscape that surrounds her. Daughter of a Bitch is a daring, abrasive, and essential look at the function of writing.
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Hisho que te nazca ISBN/Cat.# 9681101707
Nissán, Rosa
Spain, 1996
294 pages
$18.95
The endearing story of one young woman's coming to terms with growing up as a Sephardic Jew in Latin America.
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**Historia de aquel verano en Valparaíso ISBN/Cat.# 968110286X
Lavín Cerda, Hernán
Spain, 1998
289 pages
$17.95
The Story of that Summer in Valparaíso is this Chilean poet, essayist, and narrator's insightful metaphor of the human condition. This end of the millenium tale is told in the great Latin American tradition of baroque narrative, humor, and magic.
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Historias de santos ISBN/Cat.# 9682985846
Garrido, Felipe
Mexico, 1995
60 pages
$19.95
Stories of Saints is a richly packaged volume that profiles more than twenty saints with full-color illustrations and glossy paper. Original paintings by Waldo Saavedra.
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Historias prohibidas del pulgarcito, Las ISBN/Cat.# 8484051277
Dalton, Roque
El Salvador, 1997
222 pages
$18.95
These texts and poems give us a revolutionary vision of the history of El Salvador from the Spanish conquest to the "soccer" war with Honduras in 1969.
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**Hojarasca, La ISBN/Cat.# 8401427541
García Marquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1997
170 pages
$7.95
The Leaf Storm is a novel by award-winning author García Márquez. Set in the town of Macondo, it is the intriguing and sad story of a hated doctor that is refused a burial once he has died.
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*Hombre zanahoria, El ISBN/Cat.# 987921627X
Ledesma, Jorge
Argentina, 1997
142 pages
$12.95
The Carrot Man is a rare, short novel for readers looking to broaden their familiarity with Latin American science fiction. Illustrated.
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*Huatulqueños ISBN/Cat.# 968270510X
Da Jandra, Leonardo
Mexico, 1996
342 pages
$16.95
Huatulcans. The story of the inhabitants of Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico and their empassioned struggle to maintain their culture and way of life in the face of touristic development and exploitation. An intense and thought-provoking tale.
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Huracán corazón del cielo ISBN/Cat.# HURACANCOR
Galich, Franz
Nicaragua, 1995
165 pages
$19.95
Hurricane, Heart of the Sky is Galich's first novel. A native of Guatemala now living in Nicaragua, Galich writes of a people who persevere in the face of institutionalized violence.
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**Ilusiones tardías ISBN/Cat.# 9706331417
Prieto, Francisco
Mexico, 1998
352 pages
$20.95
This well-known Mexican novelist deftly narrates an imaginative account of the human condition in Late Illusions. For René Barry, the main character, the time has come to chose between suicide and a new life in a new land.
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*Imposible equilibrio ISBN/Cat.# 968270636X
Giardinelli, Mempo
Mexico, 1995
212 pages
$12.95
Impossible Equilibrium. A hilarious adventure. A plague has caused drought in Chaco, Argentina. When provincial authorities import two hippos to fight the plague, all hell breaks loose.
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Inés ISBN/Cat.# 9700506169
Garro, Elena
Mexico, 1995
160 pages
$14.95
The story of a young woman who was raised in a convent, only to be turned over to a group of sadists who take pleasure in tormenting her. Elena Garro is considered by many the "grande dame" of Mexican letters.
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**Increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndida y de su abuela desalmada, La ISBN/Cat.# 8401242282
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
156 pages
$7.95
The Incredible Sad Story of Eréndira and Her Cruel Grandmother is a book of seven short stories by Gabriel García Márquez, including "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," which has been made into a popular film.
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*Infierno de todos ISBN/Cat.# 9688344419
Pitol, Sergio
Mexico, 1997
140 pages
$8.95
Everyone's Hell contains nine short stories about nightmares, monsters, ghosts, and the human experience. Sergio Pitol (Veracruz, 1933) is one of Mexico's contemporary authors most looked up to by aspiring novelists.
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*Infierno del alcoholismo, El (la virgen del silencio) ISBN/Cat.# 968446231X
Olivera Figuera, Rafael
Mexico, 1997
273 pages
$12.95
The Hell of Alcoholism is a tender novel about a suffering artist from a privileged background struggling to find himself. A novelistic portrayal of the tortured life of an alcoholic, and the triumph of recuperation.
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*Intereses oscuros ISBN/Cat.# 9700507661
Loret de Mola, Rafael
Mexico, 1997
213 pages
$16.95
Dirty Laundry. A ground-breaking novel that cleverly delves into who and what is behind the face of Mexican politics. Full of insight and intrigue.
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Intramuros ISBN/Cat.# 968834365X
Ramos, Luis Arturo
Mexico, 1996
244 pages
$15.95
Within the City. The story of two Spaniards who are exiled in Veracruz, Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. An exploration of the relationship between optimism, imagination, and faith.
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**Inventar ciudades ISBN/Cat.# 9681904486
Puga, María Luisa
Mexico, 1998
221 pages
$9.95
A riveting novel that reminds us of the wisdom found in infancy. Inventing Cities is a profound and mature work by the extraordinary, award winning (Premio Nacional Juan Ruiz de Alarcón) Mexican author María Luisa Puga.
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Ismaelillo/La edad de oro/Versos sencillos ISBN/Cat.# 9684324731
Martí, José
Mexico, 1997
194 pages
$10.95
José Martí's works Ismaelillo, The Age of Gold and Simple Verses.
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