Product Description: «El talento narrativo del autor domina este libro. Rescata del olvido una revolución que despertó enormes esperanzas y conmovidas adhesiones.» Javier Pradera, BabeliaCon la pérdida de las elecciones generales en 1990, el proceso iniciado por la revolución sandinista contra el dictador Somoza en 1979 se detuvo en seco, y con él también se difuminaron los sueños, anhelos y esperanzas de cientos de miles de ciudadanos que participaron en aquel proceso transformador...read more

Product Description: "Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be said of Bol!var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to the yardstick by which the strong and the weak are measured."--Augusto C. Sandino.For the first time in English, here are the impassioned words of the remarkable Nicaraguan hero and martyr Augusto C...read more

Product Description: Rebeldía, pasión por la literatura, feminismo y libertad sexual. La historia de una mujer singular. Sergio Ramírez investiga la historia de una mujer costarricense, Amanda Solano, que publicó una única novela y que nunca obtuvo el reconocimiento de sus paisanos...read more

A selection of stories--from articles to fables--invites readers to admire, and fear, animals that come alive, think, feel, and are totally aware of their limits.

Offers a collection of essays about authors and their written work.

Product Description: En un ejercicio para explicar el arte de la invención, Sergio Ramírez define los conceptos y recursos fundamentales del escritor. Desde la imaginación y su base en la realidad, con su indispensable nota de verosimilitud, hasta las reglas para saber mentir y convencer, el autor nos entrega su experiencia de creador y hace una reflexión sobre la narrativa latinoamericana, en la que abundan las anécdotas, los recorridos por sus autores y temas favoritos y una gran pasión por el viejo arte de mentir...read more

Product Description: 1907. Leon, Nicaragua. During a tribute which he delivers during his triumphal return to his native city, Ruben Dario writes on the fan of a little girl one of his most famous poems, "Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea."1956. In a cafe in Leon, a group of literati gather, dedicated, among other things, to the rigorous reconstruction of the legend surrounding Dario-but also to conspire...read more

Product Description: León, Nicaragua, 1907. During a tribute he delivers during his triumphal return to his native city, Rubén Darío writes on the fan of a little girl one of his most famous poems, "Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea."In 1956 in a cafe in León, a group of literati gather, dedicated, among other things, to the rigorous reconstruction of the legend surrounding Darío-but also to conspire...read more

Castellón the photographer is a witness to the events that sweep nineteenth century Latin America, especially plans for a canal in Nicaragua, and meets figures from Queen Victoria and Napoleon III to Ruben Dario.

Product Description: Nicaragua, 1979. Ante la inminente caída de la dictadura somocista, Alirio Martinica trata de huir por mar. Es aprehendido por jóvenes combatientes del Frente Sandinista y llevado a juicio popular, acusado de participar en acciones criminales del régimen de Somoza, de quien llegó a ser secretario privado...read more

Presents stories about the variety of human experience and the sometimes desirable and sometimes cruel worlds people make for themselves as they struggle with life and search for love, an identity, and their destiny.

Fiction and modern Nicaraguan history are intertwined in the story of a woman who plays a key role in the plot to assassinate dictator Anastasio Somoza some fifty years after poet Rubén Darío inscribes his famous poem Margarita, está linda la mar on the fan of a young girl. (Historical Fiction)

Product Description: Twenty years after the hopeful triumph of the Nicaraguan revolution and almost ten years after its defeat, one of the central figures, Sergio Ramrez, narrates the story of the Sandinista decade, sometimes successful and at times tragic and imperfect. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fact and fiction are poetically entangled to retell modern Nicaraguan history. In 1907 Rubén Darío, the legendary poet, writes a famous verse on the fan of a nine-year-old girl. Fifty years later, the same girl plays a role in the plot to assassinate the dictator Anastasio Somoza...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The two feuding families of a Nicaraguan village, along with a parade of extravagant, eccentric characters, spend the riotous day of August 5, 1942 preparing a costume ball in honor of a local socialite. Reprint.

'Vignettes by the Nicaraguan author and political leader, divided into 'Before' and 'After' the 1979 Sandinista Revolution. Originally published as Estâas en Nicaragua (1985), with title taken from Cortâazar poem; Cortâazar's work and trips to Nicaragua are organizing motifs. Well translated, but no notes to explain names and places to the uninitiated reader; no other locating material'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Essays and reminiscences serve as homage to the distinguished Argentine writer, Julio Cortazar, and the art and culture of Nicaragua

Nicaragua's vice-president tells the stories of a bodybuilder, a pretentious country club, a young Santa Claus, political prisoners, and a chance for a perfect game