Jean Smeeks is captured at age thirteen in the seventeenth-century Caribbean and sold into indentured servitude on the mysterious island of Tortuga, where he learns medicine from an African slave healer and a French-born surgeon, only to sign on as a medical advisor with the pirate band the Brethen of the Coast. Reprint.

'Translation of Celina o los gatos (1968), a collection of five short stories linking the cat with mystery, reality, and narrative by the Cuban-born narrator who resides in Mexico. Her introductory essay explores symbolism of cats in life and art. Skillfull translations of four stories by Chambers and another by Kathleen Ross recommend the collection'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: This lyrical novel by one of Mexico's leading women writers explores both desire and the desire to tell a love story. In an idle moment between grading assignments, a French teacher sitting in a cafe in a Caribbean seaport town sketches an island on his white napkin...read more

Product Description: This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Selected from stories written between 1963 and 1988, it is the only collection currently available with such broad representation of active Central American writers...read more

Product Description: Book by Campos, Julieta

Product Description: stories, Argentina, tr Leland H Chambers