University Titles: Latin American Literature

**Balada de Alfonsina Bairán, La ISBN/Cat.# 8489539693
Mateo, Andrés L.
Dominican Republic, 1998
168 pages
$16.95
Written by an award winning essayist and novelist, The Ballad of Alfonsina Bairán takes place in the Dominican Republic ruled by Trujillo and has already been acclaimed by critics as a national classic.
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Balneario ISBN/Cat.# 9562470970
Couve, Adolfo
Chile, 1993
154 pages
$18.95
The Resort is a collection of stories so developed in their place and characterization that Chilean author Couve chooses to call them novels. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Couve's literary imagination is rooted more in the simple grace of everyday things.
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*Barro ISBN/Cat.# 9992615109
Navas de Miralda, Paca
Honduras, 1998
295 pages
$11.95
Clay is one of the most representative novels of the campesino experience in Honduras. Clay was written in the forties by Pacas Navas de Miranda, who also founded two major Central American literary magazines.
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Batalla perdurable, La (A veces prosa) ISBN/Cat.# 9682988551
Castañón, Adolfo
Mexico, 1996
153 pages
$12.95
The Eternal Battle (Sometimes Prose). An intriguing collection of portraits, parables, anecdotes, and poetry in prose about life and art. The author won the Mazatlán Prize for Literature.
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**Beso y el plan, El ISBN/Cat.# 9591003552
Llano, Eduardo del
Cuba, 1997
94 pages
$12.95
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Biografía de un cimarrón ISBN/Cat.# 959020144X
Barnet, Miguel
Cuba, 1995
217 pages
$10.95
Based on interviews with 105-year-old Esteban Montejo, Biography of a Runaway Slave traces Cuba's own history from colonial times to the post-revolutionary era. An outstanding, enlightening piece of grassroots anthropological and historical research.
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Boleros en La Habana ISBN/Cat.# 9562471306
Ampuero, Roberto
Chile, 1995
262 pages
$21.95
Boleros in Havana. A top-notch novel of international intrigue. A private eye investigates the case of a Latin singer and a missing stash of half a million dollars. The clues lead to Miami and South America while a hitman stalks the singer. By the award-winning Chilean author of Who Killed Cristian Kustermann?
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Borges en revista multicolor: Obras, reseñas y traducciones inéditas ISBN/Cat.# 950081482X
Borges, Jorge Luis
Argentina, 1995
445 pages
$15.95
A collection of essays, book reviews, and unpublished translations by one of Latin America's most respected writers. Includes a number of handsome illustrations.
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**Buen ladron y otros textos biblicos, El ISBN/Cat.# X976815609
Veloz, Maggiolo, Marcio
Dominican Republic, 1997
193 pages
$17.95
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*Burdel de las pedrarias, El ISBN/Cat.# BURDELDE
Pasos Marciacq, Ricardo
Nicaragua, 1997
522 pages
$25.95
The Brothel of Pedrarias is a sprawling historical novel set in the colonial period on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. The protagonist is a madame who falls for a military strongman, unraveling themes of moral degradation and double standards.
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*Burlas de la vereda infinita, Las ISBN/Cat.# LASBURLA
Rios, Herman
Panama, 1996
220 pages
$27.95
The Taunts of the Endless Path is a novel by Nicaraguan writer Rios about the expatriate experience. A meditation on people's helplessness before the larger social forces that shape their lives, and how wars allow no neutral parties.
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**Cómo un mensajero tuyo ISBN/Cat.# 8483100568
Montero, Mayra
Spain, 1998
261 pages
$24.95
Like Your Own Messenger tells the amazing story of the legendary tenor, Enrico Caruso's incredible night in the National Theater of Havana. For years Cubans were baffled as to why this famous man disappeared for days after a bomb threat sent him fleeing from the theater. Now this incredible book answers the mystery that has eluded the public for nearly 70 years. "Another fine work from Cuban-born Matero... recommended." Library Journal
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Caballo y otros cuentos, El ISBN/Cat.# ELCABALLOY
Silva, Fernando
Nicaragua, 1996
117 pages
$19.95
The Horse and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by one of Nicaragua's most important contemporary narrators.
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Cadáver a solas ISBN/Cat.# 9682706815
Cadena, Agustín
Mexico, 1996
151 pages
$10.95
Lone Cadaver. A story exploring the anti-heroism that has so pervasively taken the place of epic heroism of millennia past. A compelling examination of the modern male psyche.
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**Café nostalgia ISBN/Cat.# 840802177X
Valdés, Zoé
Mexico, 1997
363 pages
$24.95
Cafe Nostalgia. Marcela is a winner who can not cope with the consequences of triumph, always running away from fame to the refuge of her cares, her dreams, her memories, her sweet nostalgia." Told with a superb mastery of language by the award winning novelist."
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*Café reencuentro ISBN/Cat.# 9700507793
Bodenstedt, Eva
Mexico, 1997
316 pages
$18.95
The See You Again Café is a rollicking, crazy, enchanting novel by this young Mexican author.
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*Calendario y otros textos ISBN/Cat.# 9800109900
López Ortega, Antonio
Venezuela, 1997
227 pages
$15.95
The Calendar and Other Texts is an imaginative, contemporary, Venezuelan novel mixing the real with the fantastic.
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Caprichos de la piel, Los ISBN/Cat.# 9686941169
Da Jandra, Leonardo
Mexico, 1996
142 pages
$12.95
Whims of the Skin is Da Jandra's most accessible novel to date. Abandoning the dense linguistic experimentation of his earlier writing, the author weaves a tale of three beautiful women and their scandalous passions.
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*Caracol beach ISBN/Cat.# 8420483702
Alberto, Eliseo
Mexico, 1998
365 pages
$20.95
Co-winner of the 1998 Alfaguara Prize, Caracol Beach is a splendid novel weaving together themes of insanity, fear, and death. A magnificent literary triumph by an extraordinary Cuban talent.
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*Caribal ISBN/Cat.# 9591003560
Arenal, Humberto
Cuba, 1997
121 pages
$12.95
A moving novel about an opera singer's dilemma written by an established Cuban playwright and novelist.
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Cartógrafo, El ISBN/Cat.# 9682987598
Fernández Granados, Jorge
Mexico, 1996
122 pages
$12.95
The Cartographer. An excellent collection of short stories and winner of the Irma Sabina Sepúlveda Spanish National Prize for Fiction.
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*Carta del país azul y otros cuentos ISBN/Cat.# 9681650484
Darío, Rubén
Mexico, 1996
80 pages
$3.95
Letter from a Blue Country and Other Stories features the work of Nicaraguan poet and journalist Rubén Darío. This volume is a pocket-sized paperback. An affordable introduction to one of Nicaragua's most beloved authors.
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Cartas a Ricardo ISBN/Cat.# 9682965659
Castellanos Rosario
Mexico, 1994
336 pages
$24.95
Letters to Ricardo is perhaps one of the most wonderful collections of love letters in Latin American literature, where the abstract prevails over the psychological in a flowing narrative prose. Rosario Castellanos is one of Mexico's premier 20th C. narrators.
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*Cartas, sueños y otros textos ISBN/Cat.# 9684113943
Varo, Remedios
Mexico, 1997
133 pages
$18.95
Remedios Varo is best-known for his surrealistic paintings and drawings. In Letters, Dreams, and Other Texts, his considerable literary talent is displayed. This collection of interviews and other correspondence fills an important gap in the work of this prominent artist.
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Cartero de Neruda, El ISBN/Cat.# 8401009820
Skármeta, Antonio
Spain, 1995
140 pages
$17.95
An extraordinary novel made into a popular film portraying the life of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's exile in Italy, and The Postman whom he befriends.
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*Casa de la laguna, La ISBN/Cat.# 9500417669
Ferré, Rosario
Argentina, 1997
436 pages
$20.95
The House on the Lagoon is a national treasure and was a finalist at the North American National Book Awards. Ferré is an enormously talented Puerto Rican author with much to share with the United States. This novel is rich with imagery, atmosphere, and nostalgia.
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**Casa de los espíritus, La ISBN/Cat.# 8401423023
Allende, Isabel
Spain, 1998
454 pages
$11.95
The saga of the Trueba family is masterfully narrated in The House Of Spirits, whose international acclaim has placed the author among the top-ranking Latin American narrators. The novel pulses with acute historical and social lucidity. Its film adaptation with Antonio Banderas and Meryl Streep has gained immense international success.
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**Casa sin alma, La ISBN/Cat.# CASASINAL
Mejia Rez, Bernardo
El Salvador, 1997
102 pages
$11.95
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*Caza nupcial ISBN/Cat.# 9688344109
Espina, Eduardo
Mexico, 1997
168 pages
$10.95
The Wedding Hunt is a collection of rhythmic, imaginative, consciousness raising poetry and prose by Eduardo Espina of Uruguay.
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*Choque de leyendas ISBN/Cat.# 9591003528
Morán, Javier
Cuba, 1997
355 pages
$15.95
The largest illicit drug shipment of the decade lies in a nuclear submarine off the coast of Galveston, Texas, where three contemporary legends are in route toward some very serious consequences. A complex web of fatal consequences.
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**Cien años de soledad ISBN/Cat.# 8401242266
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
495 pages
$8.95
One Hundred Years of Solitude is, perhaps, the most important contemporary Latin American novel ever written. In García Márquez' masterpiece the fictional town and inhabitants of Macondo are a microcosm of Latin America. The beauty and tragedy, the seemingly unreal occurrences that adhere to reality more than one would like to think, and Márquez' amazing ability to tell a story combine to make this a remarkable achievement.
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Cien pájaros volando ISBN/Cat.# 9562471403
Collyer, Jaime
Chile, 1995
274 pages
$20.95
100 Birds Flying retells the age-old conflict between civilization and barbarism. An anthropologist is living with a primitive tribe of sheepherders when they're both faced with the arrival of a militant Maoist guerrilla detachment.
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Ciudad anterior, La ISBN/Cat.# 9507423117
Contreras, Gonzalo
Chile, 1993
185 pages
$18.95
In The City Before, Contreras has constructed an absurd world that reflects recent Chilean history. An arms dealer finds himself in a shadowy city, where he becomes involved with a host of strange characters.
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**Ciudad pintada en la ventana ISBN/Cat.# 9681904079
Ruiz Abreu, Alvaro
Mexico, 1997
173 pages
$13.95
A City Painted in the Window is a story about a friendship, reminiscence, and the inevitability of progressing and moving forward. Two cities, Mexico and Barcelona, have as much to do with the relationship as the people involved.
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**Clarinegro y otros cuentos ISBN/Cat.# CLARINEGRO
Maldonado, Ennio
Honduras, 1997
108 pages
$15.95
Clear/Black and other stories contains a collection of short stories by Honduran author Ennio Maldonado Vijil. Some have appeared in magazines and journals in his country. In his first book, the author reveals his great narrative ability to express the hopes and fears of Honduras today.
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Clint Eastwood, hazme el amor ISBN/Cat.# 9683913156
Ruvalcaba, Eusebio
Mexico, 1996
158 pages
$9.95
Make Love to Me Clint Eastwood. A sober collection of short stories exploring the feverish and hallucinatory world of alcoholism. Without condemning the protagonists, who come from all walks of life, the author portrays their dysfunction and drug of choice with color and insight.
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**Colección: Biblioteca básica de literatura salvadoreña (20 vols.) ISBN/Cat.# BIBLIOTE
varios
El Salvador, 1997
2670 pages
$119.95
This extraordinary and highly economical twenty-volume collection represents the most outstanding Salvadoran writers and poets of the 19th and 20th C. Genres include political satire, lyrical poetry, modernist novels, science fiction, and short stories. These magnificent editions provide an extensive portrait of modern Salvadoran writing. Fully indexed.
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Combate, El ISBN/Cat.# 9683643124
Quintero, Ednodio
Mexico, 1995
169 pages
$10.95
The Battle is a collection of short stories by the Venezuelan author Quintero. These stories are narrated in the first person and walk the fragile frontier between dreams and reality.
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Comedia del arte, La ISBN/Cat.# 956247139X
Couve, Adolfo
Chile, 1995
154 pages
$18.95
The Comedy of Art is, like much of Couve's work, about the universal theme of artistic truth. This time out, however, the big questions are superseded by myth and parody, and characterization takes a backseat to archetypes.
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*Como vivido cien veces ISBN/Cat.# 9500817934
Bajo, Cristina
Argentina, 1997
415 pages
$16.95
The protagonist of this Argentinian novel feels As Though I'd Lived a Hundred Lives. A passionate historical novel about a woman who defies family and social traditions by sharing a forbidden love that marks her for life.
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**Complicidades ISBN/Cat.# 848400273X
Alvarez, Soledad
Dominican Republic, 1998
119 pages
$20.95
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Con cinco barajas: Antología personal ISBN/Cat.# 9683650759
Rey-Rosa, Rodrigo
Mexico, 1996
250 pages
$9.95
Dealing With Five Decks: A Personal Anthology. An excellent selection of short, original fiction by this up-and-coming Guatemalan author.
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Concierto de estallidos ISBN/Cat.# CONCIERTODE
varios
El Salvador, 1996
165 pages
$9.95
Concert of Explosions is an anthology of works by the winners of the Alfonso Hernandez Literary Competition. Includes poetry, short stories, and testimonials by some of the best young Salvadoran writers working today.
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*Conjuras, Las ISBN/Cat.# 970050753X
Huchim, Eduardo R.
Mexico, 1997
238 pages
$16.95
The Conspiracies. A fascinating, hauntingly plausible novel that suggests what Mexico will be like in the year 2000.
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Conspiración de los idiotas, La ISBN/Cat.# 9500711125
Aguinis, Marcos
Argentina, 1996
333 pages
$29.95
The Conspiracy of Idiots. This handsome, hardcover reissue of a modern classic is a testament to the epoch of repression in Argentina. The dark humor of this novel, about the manufacture of imaginary enemies, required a disclaimer when first published. Aguinis has left that epilogue in place as a reminder of the absurd conditions of that time.
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**Coronel no tiene quien le escriba, El ISBN/Cat.# 8401427568
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
99 pages
$7.95
The story No One Writes to The Colonel by this Nobel Prize-winning author is a magnificent tale of prodigious intensity about injustice and its reparations. A handy, economical paperback edition.
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**Crónica de una muerte anunciada ISBN/Cat.# 840124224X
García Márquez, Gabriel
Spain, 1998
135 pages
$7.95
Chronicle a Death Foretold is considered one of the masterpieces of this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in a small Latin American village, this intricately woven story of passion and its consequences defies the linearity of time and space. A handy, economical, paperback edition.
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Creced y multiplicaos ISBN/Cat.# 9683913067
Laveaga, Gerardo
Mexico, 1996
103 pages
$8.95
Go Forth and Multiply. The perfection of the first artificial uterus -- practical for use by either sex -- creates controversy and causes an uproar in the scientific community, the birth control industry, and the public alike. A timely, thought-provoking novel.
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**Crimen verde, El ISBN/Cat.# CRIMENVE
Pereyra, Emilia
Dominican Republic, 1998
224 pages
$24.95
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*Cruentos policiacos ISBN/Cat.# 9700508757
Barajas, Rafael
Mexico, 1998
127 pages
$11.95
Bloody Police Stories is a collection of the excellent stories of Rafael Barajas, AKA "El Fisgón" (The Mocker), who has been described as the "most talented writer of his generation."
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