A prize-winning novel and best-seller in Portugal is written in the form of a memoir by the well-intentioned governor of a Roman city in Portugal during the empire's decline--a time of political, religious, and social turbulence. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Reprint.

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Product Description: First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo...read more

A assortment of three novellas by a recognized literary great includes Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Reprint. NYT. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author meditates on the allure of suicide for three generations of women in one Puerto Rican family, describing the lives of her grandmother and mother, her own suicide attempt, and the secrets that linked the three women

One of the most important novels in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, a satire on life and romance in the Brazilian Empire follows an heir to a philosopher's fortune who plunges into the fantastic world of Rio de Janeiro. UP. (view table of contents)

A prize-winning novel and best-seller in Portugal is written in the form of a memoir by the well-intentioned governor of a Roman city in Portugal during the empire's decline--a time of political, religious, and social turbulence. UP.

'New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable. However, work has occasional odd errors and omissions, and fails to give sufficient attention to Machado's rhythm and syntax. Given Rabassa's vast experience as a translator, it is hard not to suspect that carelessness and haste explain the mistakes and lapses. Also poorly edited and inadequately proofread'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Tells the story of an unheroic man who has a harebrained idea for curing the world from melancholy (view table of contents)

Product Description: On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship...read more

Looks at the history and development of Brazilian coffee and sugar plantations (view table of contents)

When a cruel-hearted woman locks away her niece for falling in love, a holy statue of Saint Barbara of the Thunder miraculously comes to life in the city of Bahia to set things right, changing the lives of everyone she encounters. Reprint. NYT.

In 'Taratuta', a man meets a descendant of the Russian revolutionary whose biography he is penning, and in 'Still life with pipe,' a young man becomes obsessed with a forgotten Chilean painter

The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family histroy of the Buendias

Product Description: Book by Rabassa, Gregory

Product Description: Book by Rabassa, Gregory