Product Description: From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book—at once fiction, history, and memoir—that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Muñoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive pattern—from Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the other heading toward a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small Spanish town to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz...read more

A novel of adventure and discovery -- the sequel to Isabel Allende's 'City of the Beasts'.

Product Description: The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes the conflict of North America's two cultures locked in deadly embrace...read more

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.

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