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Mario Vargas Llosa
Civilization of the Spectacle
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (La civilización del espectáculo) is an attempt to express a feeling of concern, an anguish of sorts, on seeing what we understood by "culture" when I was young, changing
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Mario Vargas Llosa
I Give You My Silence
Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the European waltz but rooted in New World Creole culture.
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Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits (new edition)
In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies.
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José Ortega y Gasset
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art."
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Sonsoles Ónega
The Maid's Daughters
On a February night in 1900, two girls, Clara and Catalina, are born on the Valdès family estate in Galicia.
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Isabel Allende
My Name is Emilia Del Valle
The year is 1866. An Irish nun, seduced and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a girl, Emilia del Valle.
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Javier Cercas
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Soldiers of Salamis
In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time
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Laura Esquivel
Like Hot Water for Chocolate
Each chapter of Esquivel's utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico begins with a recipe -- not surprisingly, since so much of the action of this exquisite first novel (a bestseller in Mexico) centers around the kitchen,
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Irene Vallejo
The Bowman's Whistle
"A short novel that dialogues between times, between the exiled and the lives they recommence, between gods and men. In terms of contemporary cinema, The Bowman's Whistle is the polyphonic remake of a classic, written with an expressiv
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Elena Poniatowska
Leonora
Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rul
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Federico García Lorca
Songs and Romances
But what can I say about Poetry? What can I say about these clouds, about this sky? I look, I look, I look at them, I look at it, and that's it. You understand that a poet can't say anything about Poetry. Leave that to the critics and the professor
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Mario Vargas Llosa
The Bad Girl
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolut
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Isabel Allende
Perla, The Mighty Dog
In the first children's book written by critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling superstar Isabel Allende, Perla, the mighty dog, teaches her human brother, Nico Rico, how to use his superpowers to stand up to a bully.
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Juan José Millás
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.
Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or s
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Guadalupe Nettel
Natural Stories / Petals and Other Awkward Stories
This volume contains two collections of short prose by Guadalupe Nettel: Natural Stories (2013) and Petals and Other Awkward Stories (2008). The stories are often written as a first-person confession, tight, without unnecessary drama, but with skill
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Pedro Almodóvar
★★★★★
The Last Dream
"The Last Dream", which Pedro Almodóvar describes as a “fragmentary autobiography” and a “little cryptic”, contains 12 stories that reflect common themes of his cinematic work, including comedy, autofiction, parody, p
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Carmen Posadas
The Legend of La Peregrina
The Legend of La Peregrina tells the true story of the most valuable pearl in the world, which started as a gift for Philip II and ended up in Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry box. This novel has been named the great literary success of Chri
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Isabel Allende
The Wind Knows My Name
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United
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Irene Vallejo
★★★★★
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages
• “Accessible and entertaining.” &mda
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Octavio Paz
Selected Essays
Rarely in the Spanish-speaking world has anyone covered the different sides of world culture with such breadth as Octavio Paz, and reflected with such depth on the problems, contradictions and tragedies of both the past and his own time. Rarely has
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Harsh Times
Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet commu
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Eduardo Mendoza
The Entanglement of the Bag and Life
In The Entanglement of the Bag and Life, the reader will find an old acquaintance - the anonymous detective and main character in the parody series "The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt", "The Labyrinth of the Olives" and "The Ad
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Other Labyrinth. Selected Stories
"The stories in this collection break down the preconceptions, the familiar theories, the predestination that binds the characters to a certain place or a certain era. These are Adolfo Bioy's themes, always the same, always told differently.
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Elisa Ferrer
The Wasp Season
Let go from her job at the magazine when there are cutbacks, Nuria has to face up to some of her childhood obsessions. A mysterious telephone call starts everything unravelling, her real father, from whom she and her brother Raúl have heard n
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Juan José Saer
The Witness
“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.” — Washington Times
“Haunting and beautifully written.” — Independent on Sunday
The novel The Witness (19
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Jose Carlos Somoza
A Study in Black
Somoza is back and at his best with the first book in a trilogy inspired by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
England, 1900s. Nurse Anne McCarey, weary of life in London and fleeing a stormy relationship, accepts a job caring for a patient at
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Jorge Batllori
116 Brain Training Games
The book contains a variety of logical, mathematical and linguistic tasks suitable for children aged between 8 and 12 years. Here are some of the types of tasks:
- analogies: tasks used in intelligence tests, in which a series of elements with
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Isabel Allende
Violeta
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu
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Javier Marías
Berta Isla
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson–the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tom&
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Mario Vargas Llosa
The Call of the Tribe
An intellectual autobiography of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
The difference between this autobiography and others like El pez en el agua /A Fish in the Water is that this book's leading role is not necessarily the auth
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Isabel Allende
Eva Luna
In a very short time, Isabel Allende has won the allegiance and affection of readers and reviewers around the world - first with The House of the Spirits (praised by Alexander Coleman in The New York Times Book Review as “a unique achieveme
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Francisco Gerardo Haghenbeck
Mathematics for Fairies
This is the story of an exceptional woman, Ada Byron, who felt more comfortable among numbers, fairies and fauns, than in the tight corset of everyday reality. F. G. Haghenbeck presents us with a fascinating portrait of this complex,
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