Product Description: Residents on both sides of the Rio Grande, or the Rio Bravo as it's known in Mexico, have suffered horrific violence as numerous peoples have sought control of the land. In 1836, in what is now Texas, a young girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches who behaved "like vengeful drug dealers," spearing, scalping and castrating their victims...read more

Product Description: Texas es una historia de hombres armados por necesidad o por gusto y de mujeres indómitas, crónica de vaqueros y apaches, de afroamericanos e inmigrantes de distintos orígenes, de comancheros y cautivos, de esclavistas e insurgentes...read more

Product Description: Esta fascinante novela combina los acontecimientos historicos que marcaron el destino de esta nacion con las pequenas miserias y los destinos tragicos de sus gentes. Se inicia con la construccion de la hermosa Casa Espiritu en los albores de la Independencia Mexicana (1810), y sus piedras nos hablan de los primeros habitantes: un cura revolucionario, sus amigos artistas e intelectuales, y su valiente hija...read more

Product Description: El Parnaso, congreso literario que concede anualmente un premio al mejor inedito de un maestro, cambia de sede y busca una ciudad que lo albergue en 2007. Este festival tiene una peculiaridad: los participantes, autenticos clasicos, estan todos muertos...read more

Product Description: La pintora Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) nacio en Lombardia (en Cremona), ciudad donde vieron tambien la luz los primeros stradivarius. La virgen y el violin recrea la intensa vida de esta artista (dama de la reina, pintora de la Corte de Felipe II, casada por el rey con el segundon de un ex virrey en Sicilia ;asesinado supuestamente por los piratas; y despues por propia voluntad con el capitan de la flota que la rescato en Palermo) al tiempo que nos presenta la historia de un amor imposible, las andanzas de una poeta africana, la intensa actividad del taller de los hacedores de instrumentos musicales, su variedad de artesanos, las desazones en la casa de la reina, las rinas de la nobleza siciliana...read more

Product Description: Dissolving the tenuous line of the present and shaping a frame within which time becomes fluid, our senses don’t stop at just five, and death loses its anachronistic character, these stories tell of legendary people, events that may or may not have happened, as well as dreams with real consequences and realities with dreamlike plots...read more

Product Description: A comienzos de 2001, en un pequeno restaurante de Paris, un hombre mayor manosea a las dos jovencitas que lo acompanan. Lo que mas extrana a la voyeureuse de la mesa de al lado, es escuchar a este hombre jactarse de poseer algo tan extraordinario como el velazquez que fue dado por perdido durante el incendio del Real Alcazar de Madrid en la nochebuena de 1734...read more

A lazy but perfectionist author living in Brooklyn prepares to use new software to create the perfect novel, one that can go straight from imagination to reality without needing to be written or to be restricted by the rules of language.

Product Description: Tras separarse de su padre, expulsado como muchos gitanos por Felipe II, la nina Maria es llevada a servir a un convento del que huye para ser acogida por unos moriscos amigos de su padre, quienes la educan y le ensenan el arte de la espada...read more

Product Description: In a home filled with tradition and secret lies hidden behind every door, this is the coming-of-age story of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in the Mexican province of Tabasco. As Delmira becomes a woman she will search for her missing father, and will make a choice that will force her to leave home forever...read more

A new collection of poetry explores the most human of pains and the most touching forms of happiness, pleasure, with a sense of sharp humor.

An audacious retelling of the life and legend of Cleopatra follows the ancient queen as a young girl fleeing the intrigues of royal society to take up residence with a band of pirates, as a young queen carried across the sea by a magical bull to live among the Amazons, and as the dying consort of Marc Antony. Reprint.

An audacious retelling of the life and legend of Cleopatra follows the ancient queen as a young girl fleeing the intruges of royal society to take up residence with a band of pirates, as a young queen carried across the sea by a magical bull to live among the Amazons, and as the dying consort of Marc Antony.

Product Description: En el siglo XVII, el esclavo Smeeks, que ha aprendido de sus amos el arte de curar, se une a la gran Cofradia de los Hermanos de la Costa, una sociedad de piratas sanguinarios y crueles, pero generosos y solidarios entre si. Carmen Boullosa sumerge al lector, a partir de las memorias del cirujano Alexander Olivier Esquemelin, en las costumbres de bucaneros y filibusteros de una epoca en la que el mar Caribe rebosaba de accion y de prodigiosas aventuras...read more

Product Description: Winner of the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (1989). Antes is the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to regain her innocence, knowing that in order for her to discover her identity, she must overcome fear.

Product Description: Winner of the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (1989). Antes is the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to regain her innocence, knowing that in order for her to discover her identity she must overcome fear.

An original novel about honor and villainy among bandits takes place in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, relating the story of young Jean Smeeks, kidnapped at thirteen and eventually medical officer for a band of pirates. Tour.

Presents the magical coming-of-age story of Delmira, whose Mexican village is home to visions of her grandmother floating above her bed, stones turning into water, and her elderly serving woman's stigmata, but as Delmira reaches adulthood she makes a choice that forces her to leave home forever. First serial, Granta magazine.

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Product Description: In a home filled with tradition, a secret lies hidden behind every door. A flashback into the main character's childhood recreates the life of a family and its servants, of their conflicts, deceits, secrets, and lies. Recommended by the jury of the 1998 International Alfaguara Novel Award...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)