Latin American Literature

Publicada hace más de veinte años, Estokolmo no pierde su solidez original. La historia narra el secuestro en Montevideo, de una joven adinerada, por Marcelo, Seba y el Chole. Tres jóvenes de distintos orígenes sociales, a los que los une el mundo de la marginalidad. Las alusiones a la música de Charlie García y Los Redondos, así como al fútbol, actúan como una especie de banda sonora dentro de una breve y poderosa historia que también secuestrará al lector desde sus primeras líneas. Estokolmo, con esta edición, se publica por primera vez en Estados Unidos.

La vida nunca ha sido fácil para Óscar Wao, un dominicano dulce, obeso y desastroso que vive con su madre y su hermana disfuncional en un gueto de Nueva Jersey. Óscar sueña con convertirse en un J. R. R. Tolkien dominicano y, por encima de todo, sueña con encontrar el amor de su vida. Pero puede que Óscar nunca alcance sus metas debido a una extraña maldición que ha estado en su familia por generaciones, enviando a los Wao a prisión, predisponiéndolos a accidentes trágicos y, ante todo, al desamor.

David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida’s Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He’s hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the world around him—a sunken world where faith in anything is a privilege.

When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell, is the little book that started it all: The story of Julio and Emilia, two Chilean university students who, seeking truth in great literature, find one another instead. As they fall together and drift apart over the course of young adulthood, Zambra spins an emotionally engrossing, expertly distilled, formally inventive tale of love, art, and memory.

Son los años cincuenta, Raquel y Alejo se aman a escondidas: los prejuicios del padre de Raquel les impiden verse libremente. Sin embargo, las precauciones para no ser encontrados fallan y una noche los protagonistas son sorprendidos. El castigo es la separación, la que llevará a Raquel a París y a Alejo, a la Amazonía peruana.

In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science-fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather’s home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Adana’s son in New Orleans, but as Hurricane Katrina strikes, they must head to the storm-ravaged city.

El autor de Tinta Roja y Sobredosis vuelve a Grupo Planeta. Sobredosis es un libro intenso. Su publicación amplió los horizontes de la literatura chilena y esta no volvió a ser la misma. El lenguaje utilizado y las situaciones extremas lo transformaron en un clásico. La pólemica crítica de los primeros años de la democracia lo volvió un objeto de culto. En este conjunto de cuentos, Fuguet escarba en lo más profundo de la sociedad.

Esta novela de Ana Castillo, autora aclamada por la crítica, es un juego de pasión, amor e independencia. Carmen la coja es la historia de una bailarina de Chicago físicamente impedida desafiando los estereotipos sociales. Carmen Santos inicia un romance con Manolo por el cual se definirá su vida.

En la cárcel de Santiago de Compostela, en el verano de 1936, un pintor dibuja el Pórtico de la Gloria con un lápiz de carpintero. Los rostros de los profetas y de los ancianos de la Orquesta del Apocalipsis son los de sus compañeros republicanos de presidio. Un guardián, su futuro asesino, lo observa fascinado... La historia de ese lápiz, conductor de memorias, portador de almas, continuará hasta nuestros días.

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: especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.

A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption - a debut novel from one of Europe's best-selling literary stars.

At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment.

Últimas tardes con Teresa constituye uno de los hitos de la narrativa española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Dentro de la obra de Juan Marsé, esta inolvidable novela ocupa además un lugar muy especial, pues mereció el Premio Biblioteca Breve en 1965 y supuso la consolidación del autor como uno de los escritores más representativos de la literatura europea contemporánea.

The Parliamentry troops believe he will hide in the home of Colonel Beverly, a famous Cavalier - they surround the house believeing they will smoke him out. No King is found and they are told that they have killed the four children who were in the house - but they escape with the old forester, Jacob Armitage, who must now teach them to lose their lace, and velvet manners and behave and look like Puritans

Una novela disparatada e inquietante sobre la familia, México y el empeño de escabullirse de la realidad. El protagonista de esta novela regresa a su pueblo en México después de largos años viviendo en el extranjero, donde ha formado una familia y lleva una vida apacible. Vuelve a la casa de sus padres para ayudar a sus hermanos a cuidar de ellos, ya mayores y con achaques. Se supone que será un paréntesis breve y luego retomará la rutina.

Una novela emocionante, tremendamente humana y real, que describe las peripecias de un grupo de niños en un barco hasta su llegada a México. La ayuda del presidente General Cárdenas del Río a los niños republicanos. Recuérdame puede parecer una novela de perdedores que tuvieron que dejarlo todo para huir, pero es ante todo un homenaje a los exiliados de todas las guerras y aquellos que han perdido su patria por la barbarie de la guerra.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

Samuel Sotomayor tiene una deuda pendiente, quiere vengar la muerte de sus padres asesinados. Necesita encontrar a los asesinos. Pero luego de vengarse se da cuenta de que el resultado de esta venganza no es satisfactorio, solo un deseo cumplido y un conflicto moral lo empieza a envolver.

Love shouldn’t come in threes, so why is this happening to me? They say love is spilled from the veins and onto the skin of lovers. Bleed, bleed, bleed until they set you free. My blood will shed until one wins. They’re destined to destroy one another, and I’m caught in the middle. Will there be anyone left?

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings - she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe", Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction.