Product Description: First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Examines the history, traditions, personalities, and recordings of this period of jazz

Paralyzing claustrophobia, petty suspicion and spying, stifled daydreaming, and male brutality make up the life of a working woman in war-torn Barcelona during the 1940s and 1950s.

The simple life of Mila, young and naive, abruptly ends when she is raped by Anima, a friend of her husband, Matias

Product Description: Book by Estelles, Vicent Andres

With her mercurial husband dead and the Spanish Civil War raging, Natalia struggles to protect her two small children and clings to memories of her brief marriage and its equal portions of joy and misery

Product Description: This anthology starts in 1920. At that time, Catalan had grown from an insignificant regional dialect to a modern tongue with one of the richest literatures in Europe. This collection coincides with a resurgence of interest in the Catalan culture, and the printed word in particular...read more

Product Description: His first book. He was an American author, poet, editor, and translator. He wrote mostly on the history of jazz music and was also an important translator of Catalan literature.