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1) Ballet
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
32 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Catholics to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities"--
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
629 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, in a failed career, trying to dodge the constant manipulation of his powerful father. This monotonous existence is shaken up when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide in dramatic circumstances. Her death pushes the fragile balance of Gonzalo's life as both a father and husband to the limit"--
5) Abyss
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's...
8) Canción
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
9) Mourning
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón?...
10) Three novels
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
108 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, this collection features fantastical stories in which monsters and...
12) The Gaudí key
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dorothy, a publishing project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winner of a 2020 MacArthur "genius" award for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," Cristina Rivera Garza is a singular voice in contemporary letters, one who American readers are still discovering. New and Selected Stories brings together in English translation stories from across her career, including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and...
15) Such small hands
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands."Edmund WhiteLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to...
16) The Polish boxer
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can't find in books...
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