A fast-paced narrative introduces the end of an era in the history of Bolivia, bringing to life the perverse connection between power and violence, the role (or lack of it) of the word in the transformation of a nation, and the redemption that occurs with the acceptance of responsibilities.

A Bolivian-American political scientist teaching at an upstate New York university, Pedro becomes embroiled in a torid illicit affair with a beautiful graduate student, before returning to Bolivia to seek the truth about his father's mysterious past. Original.

Follows the leader of a group of computer hackers who oppose the government and the big corporations, the founder of the government's code-breaking unit, and a government agent who fears he works for the wrong side.

Product Description: Paz Soldán returns to the short story genre, which he became known for. Love in these stories is an obsession, an elusive ideal, which once obtained, falls apart due to weaknesses and betrayals. In one story we see Ramiro naked in a motel room recalling the moments he spent there with his ex-lover; in another one, we see a man spy on his daughter while she makes love with many men who start looking more and more like him...read more

Pedro returns to Bolivia from the United States to escape the amorous attentions of his former student, Ashley, and to investigate the life of his father, a leftist leader who was killed by the Bolivian government.

Chino, a promising young Latino, finds himself drawn into the dangerous world of Willy Bodega, ruler of Spanish Harlem, and torn between his loyalties to his pregnant Pentecostal wife and the promises of the barrio ringleader.

Twenty-three stories of various lengths describe the appearance, development, and failure of love, and the obsessions to which it may lead. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume examines Latin American literature in the context of a complimentary audiovisual culture dominated by mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet. The articles gathered here, all of them published for the first time, critically assess Latin American media theories (Garcia Canclini et al...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gathers stories by Latin American authors about the United States, its society, and its culture, as seen by Spanish-speaking visitors, immigrants, and residents. (view table of contents)