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By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9780811221085 | New Directions, October 6, 2015, cover price $13.95

Marrying For A Mom (Silhouette Romance) [Sep 01, 2001] Talcott, Deanna

Paperback:

9780811223430 | Reissue edition (New Directions, March 10, 2015), cover price $15.95
9780373195435, titled "Marrying for a Mom" | Harlequin Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $3.99 | also contains Marrying for a Mom | About this edition: Marrying For A Mom (Silhouette Romance) [Sep 01, 2001] Talcott, Deanna

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Product Description: A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera’s goatherd...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9780811221108 | New Directions, June 26, 2014, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real.

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By Martin Arias (editor), Jorge Luis Borges, Martin Hadis (editor) and Katherine Silver (trans)

Hardcover:

9780811218757 | New Directions, July 31, 2013, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780811222747 | Reprint edition (New Directions, September 9, 2014), cover price $17.95

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By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9780811219990 | New Directions, October 16, 2012, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: As the adults sit down to gossip over a long wedding lunch and the rest of the children rush off to play, a young boy slips out of sight beneath the table. Tommy is twelve years old but his weak heart prevents him from joining his cousins' games, so he sets his MP3 player to record the voices chattering above him...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9781846272318 | Ingram Pub Services, October 5, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: As the adults sit down to gossip over a long wedding lunch and the rest of the children rush off to play, a young boy slips out of sight beneath the table.

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Product Description: A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes ― scenes, moods, dreams, and weather― as the narrator wanders through Lima.Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate...read more

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9781555971298 | Graywolf Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The narrator reflects on his own adolescence, the emergence of Peru from its colonial past, and the European travelers in the resort town of Barranco

Paperback:

9780811219594 | New Directions, September 25, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes ― scenes, moods, dreams, and weather― as the narrator wanders through Lima.

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Product Description: Praise for Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack: “A vivid and compelling picture of a society riven by corruption, social breakdown, and casual brutality. A pacy, intense, and thought-provoking read.”—Guardian “Martin Cruz Smith and Philip Kerr fans will be rewarded...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

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9781904738732 | Bitter Lemon Pr, September 20, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Praise for Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack: “A vivid and compelling picture of a society riven by corruption, social breakdown, and casual brutality.

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Product Description: Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Herna´ndez Marti´nez ― known as the Warlock ― who came to power in El Salvador in 1932...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

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9780811219174 | New Directions, June 29, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.

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Product Description: New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world. César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9780811218788 | New Directions, May 25, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world.

By Katherine Silver (trans)

Paperback:

9780811218467, titled "The She-Devil in the Mirror" | New Directions, September 30, 2009, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: A beautiful librarian pursued by the Nazis must protect a mysterious document said to be penned by God's own handEmilio Calderón is a true master of the historical novel, able to infuse a specific time and place with clarion detail and an aura of magic...read more
By Katherine Silver (trans)

Hardcover:

9781594201813 | Italian edition edition (Penguin Pr, July 17, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A beautiful librarian pursued by the Nazis must protect a mysterious document said to be penned by God's own handEmilio Calderón is a true master of the historical novel, able to infuse a specific time and place with clarion detail and an aura of magic.

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9780143115502 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 30, 2009), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A beautiful librarian pursued by the Nazis must protect a mysterious document said to be penned by God's own handEmilio Calderón is a true master of the historical novel, able to infuse a specific time and place with clarion detail and an aura of magic.

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Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with notorious bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during an ambitious heist that is complicated by the galvanizing presence of a talented dancer. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780393064940 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 28, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with notorious bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during an ambitious heist that is complicated by the galvanizing presence of a talented dancer.

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Madly in love with Reina, a beautiful and ambitious woman, Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, agrees to accompany her to New York, only to become separated from her on their first night in Queens, sending Marlon on a painful odyssey into the dark underbelly of New York as an illegal immigrant. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780374229771 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 10, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Madly in love with the beautiful and ambitious Reina, Marlon Cruz, a naèive young man from Medellâin, Colombia, agrees to accompany her to New York, only to become separated from her on their first night in Queens.

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9780312425968 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, December 12, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Madly in love with Reina, a beautiful and ambitious woman, Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, agrees to accompany her to New York, only to become separated from her on their first night in Queens, sending Marlon on a painful odyssey into the dark underbelly of New York as an illegal immigrant.

By Katherine Silver (trans)

Miscellaneous:

9781429935623 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 10, 2006), cover price $9.99

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An effeminate homosexual known as the Queen of the Corner falls in love with a young straight man who is using his house to hold clandestine meetings and to store mysterious boxes, unaware that he and his friends are plotting the assassination of Pinochet, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1986 Chile.

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9780802117687 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An effeminate homosexual known as the Queen of the Corner falls in love with a young straight man who is using his house to hold clandestine meetings and to store mysterious boxes, unaware that he and his friends are plotting the assassination of Pinochet, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1986 Chile.

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When Mario becomes the postman for a small island just off the coast of Chile, he becomes friends with his only postal customer, the poet Pablo Neruda, and seeks his advice in wooing Beatriz, a young barmaid

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9780786881277 | Miramax, June 1, 1995, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When Mario becomes the postman for a small island just off the coast of Chile, he becomes friends with his only postal customer, the poet Pablo Neruda, and seeks his advice in wooing Beatriz, a young barmaid

Mario Jimenez, a young Chilean postman, tries to strike up a relationship with Pablo Neruda, the celebrated poet

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9781555971977 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, February 1, 1994), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Mario Jimenez, a young Chilean postman, tries to strike up a relationship with Pablo Neruda, the celebrated poet

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Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed

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9780811210195 | New Directions, May 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed

Paperback:

9780811210201, titled "Battles in the Desert & Other Stories" | New Directions, May 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed

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