Product Description: Allende recounts the story of her ancestors and youth while waiting next to her daughter's hospital bedside, and reflects on the challenges and achievements of one family during a turbulent time in Chilean history.

Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, after being abandoned as a baby, a pregnant Eliza follows her lover, Joaquin Andieta, to California at the height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her road to independence and love. Reprint. Oprah's Book Club (view table of contents)

Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles.

Josefa Ferrer, a famed Chilean singer, narrates the story of her best friend, Violeta, a woman who has suffered a brutal and violent tragedy, in an insightful tale of friendship, betrayal, disillusionment, grief, and second chances, in the first American paperback publication of a novel by the acclaimed Latin American author. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Gathers prose poems and recollections of friends, travel, and experiences by the Chilean poet and Nobel prizewinner

Offers a selection of the poems Neruda wrote about everday objects, combining Marxist principles with innovative poetic techniques, in the original Spanish with parallel English translations (view table of contents)

Josefa Ferrer, a famed Chilean singer, narrates the story of her best friend, Violeta, a woman who has suffered a brutal and violent tragedy, in an insightful tale of friendship, betrayal, disillusionment, grief, and second chances, in the first American publication of a novel by the acclaimed Latin American author.

A best-selling novelist offers a combination of memoir and meditation that explores the nature of the passionate life, especially the delights of food and sex, and includes family recipes, musings on aphrodisiacs, poems, retellings of ancient tales, and more. Reprint. Tour.

A work combining personal narrative and erotic lore offers recipes, poems, stories, paintings, and anecdotes focusing on the sensuality of food

Set in the tumultuous years following the Mexican revolution, this extraordinary tale of love is seen through the eyes of the irresistible Catalina Guzman, a guileless adolescent who leaves her poor parents to marry a retired general twice her age. Original.

'This en face annotated edition of selected writings of the Mexican poet includes the Respuesta to the Bishop of Puebla (1691) and a broad selection of her poetry and dramatic texts: nine love sonnets; segments from Primero sueäno, Villancico VI to SaintCatherine, and Loa para el auto sacramental de el divino Narciso; and Leonor's speech from the play Los empeänos de una casa. Peden's 'Translator's Note' explains her translation strategy of 'moving backwards' towards the poet's place and time, which skillfully captures the full flavor of the baroque past. Stavans' extensive 'Introduction' and 'Suggestions for Further Reading' provide orientation to Sor Juana's masterpieces and their social and intellectual contexts. Highly recommended for classroom and general use'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Collects many of the writings of Juana Inâes de la Cruz, including a defense of the rights of women to participate in intellectual pursuits, and contains autobiographical sonnets, religious poetry, and love poems. (view table of contents)

When her womanizing husband's spendthrift ways force her to leave her native Colombia to seek work in Madrid, Teodora Vencejos takes a job with master chef Dr. Amiel, who offers her a sensuous education in both the culinary and erotic arts. Reprint.

After one night of passion, Azucena, an astroanalyst in twenty-third-century Mexico City, is separated from her Twin Soul, Rodrigo, and journeys across the galaxy and through past lives to find her lost love, encountering a deadly enemy along the way. Simultaneous.

When her womanizing husband's spendthrift ways force her to to leave her native Colombia to find work in Madrid, Teodora Vencejos takes a job with master chef Dr. Amiel, who gives her a sensuous education in both the culinary and erotic arts.

Offers interviews with Mexican playwrights, sculptors, poets, novelists, photographers, critics, choreographers, architects, and weavers

Product Description: "When it was first published in Spanish, THE TUNNEL won the applause of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus and was described as an existentialist classic," reminded The New York Times Book Review, in its recent review. Indeed, THE TUNNEL is one of the most highly regarded short novels of the twentieth century...read more