The autobiography of one of Latin America's most celebrated writers ranges from his birth in Arequipa, through his work with the reform movement and 1990 bid for the Peruvian presidency, and reveals the experiences that he transformed into his critically acclaimed literary works. (view table of contents)

An erotic novel in which, little by little, the shadow of perversion darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of the characters. The mysterious nature of happiness and the corrupting power of innocence are the book's main themes.

Product Description: A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures...read more

Product Description: Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fictional portraits of such figures, and no novel of this genre is as universally esteemed as Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme, a book that draws on and reimagines the career of the man who was “elected” Supreme Dictator for Life in Paraguay in 1814...read more

In a novel based on the life and death of Eva Peron, her husband, Argentine dictator Juan Peron, has her body preserved after her death and has her enshrined as Saint Evita, but his enemies steal the body and her corpse begins its bizarre odyssey. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

A companion volume to the acclaimed The Gold of Dreams finds Miguel Villace Yototl, mestizo son of a lost Spanish conquistador, sailing with his godfather to Panama on a journey full of intrigue and high piratical adventure.

Seven essays by the 1990 Nobel laureate discuss how poetry is the expresssion of an era and imagine how poetry will be reinvented and transformed to depict future generations

Returning to her hometown after years of traveling the world and pretending to be a world-famous diva, Caetana draws the town's most illustrious citizens--among them a cattle baron, an historian and poet, and a pharmacist--into her life.

Seven essays by the 1990 Nobel laureate discuss how poetry is the expresssion of an era and imagine how poetry will be reinvented and transformed to depict future generations

Four stories by the Mexican novelist deal with a couple's puzzling reliance on a cat, a journey through time, the end of innocence, and a man's mystic journey

Product Description: A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early morning hours on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all it is about Argentina: its recent history, its 30,000 missing children, its stunned middle class, its writers in exile...read more