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Product Description: "Based on a true story, The Mastermind is a tense political thriller about a successful Guatemalan lawyer whose life takes a strange turn when a failed affair leads to his faking his own death and implicating the government. Unger’s searing political criticism blends with gripping real-life details to sketch an unforgettable picture of modern Guatemalan society...read more

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9781617754425 | Akashic Books, April 5, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "Based on a true story, The Mastermind is a tense political thriller about a successful Guatemalan lawyer whose life takes a strange turn when a failed affair leads to his faking his own death and implicating the government.

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Product Description: Guillermo Rosensweig, un abogado rico y carismático, es asesinado una apacible mañana en la que sale a pasear en bicicleta. Sorprendentemente, la víctima sabía a ciencia cierta que iba a morir y pocos días antes había grabado un video en el que culpaba de su inminente asesinato nada menos que al presidente de Guatemala...read more

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9786070729126 | Planeta Pub Corp, August 11, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Guillermo Rosensweig, un abogado rico y carismático, es asesinado una apacible mañana en la que sale a pasear en bicicleta.

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9781119084853 | Pap/psc edition (For Dummies, August 10, 2015), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: Con este título se invita a los más pequeños a conoceruna historia de David Unger sobre su infancia enGuatemala y cómo, junto con su familia, tuvo queabandonar su ciudad natal a causa de la guerra. Es lahistoria del autor, pero también la de muchos niños que seven obligados a dejar sus países y enfrentar las dificultadesque les representa adaptarse a otras culturas, concostumbres y hasta lenguas distintas...read more

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9786077749783 | Centro De Informacion Y Desarollo, September 30, 2012, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Con este título se invita a los más pequeños a conoceruna historia de David Unger sobre su infancia enGuatemala y cómo, junto con su familia, tuvo queabandonar su ciudad natal a causa de la guerra.

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Product Description: Una lectura excepcional que captura de forma brillante el espíritu de la Latinoamérica moderna. Para mí, eres divina narra la historia de Olivia, una chica cualquiera que vive en un plantío de café en medio de las verdes y frondosas montañas de Guatemala...read more

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9786073106269 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo Mexico, October 15, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Una lectura excepcional que captura de forma brillante el espíritu de la Latinoamérica moderna.

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Product Description: "Evoking both Kafka and Conrad, Unger’s character study of a broken man in a culture broken by a ravenous corporation makes compelling reading."--Booklist"Unger does a great job with fish-out-of-water situations, as [protagonist] Samuel’s travails--sometimes Kafkaesque, sometimes Laurel and Hardy--nicely pit his timidity against his growing desperation...read more

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9781936070923 | 1 edition (Akashic Books, April 19, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "Evoking both Kafka and Conrad, Unger’s character study of a broken man in a culture broken by a ravenous corporation makes compelling reading.

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Product Description: The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced astronomy. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan K’iche’ man transcribed what he called a sacred book that “we can no longer see...read more
By David Unger (trans)

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9780888999214 | Reprint edition (Groundwood Books, March 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced astronomy.

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Product Description: We all know relationships can drive us crazy. Our partners routinely annoy us, disappoint us and refuse us. They upset us, hurt us, embarrass us and occasionally make us wonder whether we wouldn’t be better off without them. Yet, despite all that, most people still want to be in a relationship...read more

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9781604813029 | Lightning Source Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: We all know relationships can drive us crazy.

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Product Description: We all know relationships can drive us crazy. Our partners routinely annoy us, disappoint us and refuse us. They upset us, hurt us, embarrass us and occasionally make us wonder whether we wouldn’t be better off without them. Yet, despite all that, most people still want to be in a relationship...read more

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9781604813012 | Lightning Source Inc, September 30, 2008, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: We all know relationships can drive us crazy.

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Product Description: Rigoberta Menchu returns to the world of childhood in this, her third book. The novel’s seven-year-old heroine, Ixkem, is chosen to tend to the prized cornfields once her grandfather has passed away. But Ixkem isn’t sure she can accept this great responsibility...read more
By David Unger (trans)

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9780888998965 | Groundwood Books, October 10, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rigoberta Menchu returns to the world of childhood in this, her third book.

Product Description: Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation. His name, which means "Old Dog," was given to him by the plantation master because, like the bloodhounds that chased fugitive slaves, Perro Viejo is always searching for the scent of his long lost mother...read more

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9780888998361 | Groundwood Books, October 28, 2007, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation.

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9781417796069 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2007, cover price $19.60 | also contains Old Dog | About this edition: Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation.

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Presents the story of a young Afro-Cuban girl who goes to live with relatives after the death of her mother, only to be met with racial prejudice and mistreatment from those who have taken her in.

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9780888997227 | Groundwood Books, March 28, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents the story of a young Afro-Cuban girl who goes to live with relatives after the death of her mother, only to be met with racial prejudice and mistreatment from those who have taken her in.

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9780888997234 | Reprint edition (Groundwood Books, March 28, 2006), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Presents the story of a young Afro-Cuban girl who goes to live with relatives after the death of her mother, only to be met with racial prejudice and mistreatment from those who have taken her in.

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A sequel to The Girl from Chimel includes ancient Mayan tales of natural phenomena narratives, animal stories, creation myths, and more.

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9780888996701 | Italian edition edition (Groundwood Books, March 12, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Nobel Peace Prize-winner recounts some of the Maya legends she learned from her grandparents as a child in Guatemala.

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Drawing on the Mayan landscape and using traditional Mayan craftwork illustrations, the author recounts her childhood in the Mayan villages of the highlands, bringing to life the beauty, community, and integrity of her homeland, which was forever changed by the war in Guatemala.

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9780888996664 | Groundwood Books, August 9, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Nobel Peace Prize winner details her Guatemalan childhood, recounting stories of her grandparents and parents, and her close association with the natural world that surrounded her highland village.

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Product Description: Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemalan Jewish family. In the face of military rule, terrorism, and sabotage, Marcos learns the truth about his brother Aaron, only to find that sibling secrets can be every bit as dangerous as civil unrest...read more

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9780299200541 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemalan Jewish family.

In Guatemala during the 1980s, Marcos Eltalef, a Jewish businessmen imprisoned in a hospital, falls in love with an ex-prostitute, while his brother Aarâon tries to protect their business by plotting with the sinister Colonel Mendoza.

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9789685956697 | Plaza Y Janes Mexico, October 30, 2004, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: In Guatemala during the 1980s, Marcos Eltalef, a Jewish businessmen imprisoned in a hospital, falls in love with an ex-prostitute, while his brother Aarâon tries to protect their business by plotting with the sinister Colonel Mendoza.

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In Guatemala during the 1980s, Marcos Eltalef, a Jewish businessmen imprisoned in a hospital, falls in love with an ex-prostitute, while his brother Aarâon tries to protect their business by plotting with the sinister Colonel Mendoza.

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9780307209634 | Plaza Y Janes Mexico, October 15, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In Guatemala during the 1980s, Marcos Eltalef, a Jewish businessmen imprisoned in a hospital, falls in love with an ex-prostitute, while his brother Aarâon tries to protect their business by plotting with the sinister Colonel Mendoza.

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Isabel's fascination with an old photograph of her great-grandmother Beatrice, taken when she was the same age as Isabel, leads to an unusual dialogue between generations representing two different worlds. (view table of contents)
By Ana Maria Machado, Caroline Merola (illustrator) and David Unger (trans)

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9780888994677 | Groundwood Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Isabel's fascination with an old photograph of her great-grandmother Beatrice, taken when she was the same age as Isabel, leads to an unusual dialogue between generations representing two different worlds.

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Product Description: Rarely is a book about therapy funny, touching, inisghtful,helpful and laced with sex, drugs and rock and roll. If you have an interest in any of those things you may find this is the one psychology book for you.

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9781401045876 | Xlibris Corp, July 1, 2002, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Rarely is a book about therapy funny, touching, inisghtful,helpful and laced with sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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9781401045869 | Xlibris Corp, July 1, 2002, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Rarely is a book about therapy funny, touching, inisghtful,helpful and laced with sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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Product Description: Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominet Guatemalan Jewish family. It covers such universal themes as family and loyalty, love and loss, assimilation and identity, and war and exile.

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9780815607373 | 1 edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominet Guatemalan Jewish family.

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Marcela, a modern professional woman in her forties, returns to her hometown of San Lazaro in Mexico to put her life back together after a brief extra-marital affair, as well as to discover her parents' secret past

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9781880684627 | Curbstone Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Marcela, a modern professional woman in her forties, returns to her hometown of San Lazaro in Mexico to put her life back together after a brief extra-marital affair, as well as to discover her parents' secret past

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Retells the stories from the mythology of the Quichâe Indians which were written down and preserved after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
By Luis Garay (illustrator), Victor Montejo and David Unger (trans)

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9780888993625 | Groundwood Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Retells Quiche Indian myths

'Excellent translation of Busca mi esquela and Primer amor, two novellas awarded the 1996 Sor Juana Inâes de la Cruz Prize. Provocative, haunting fiction whose author deserves to be studied and read for works other than her Recuerdos del porvenir'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/In 'First Love,' Barbara and her daughter make friends with some German prisoners of war in France, and in 'Look For My Obituary,' a doomed romance arises between a young man and a woman facing an arranged marriage
By Elena Garro and David Unger (trans)

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9781880684511 | Curbstone Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 'Excellent translation of Busca mi esquela and Primer amor, two novellas awarded the 1996 Sor Juana Inâes de la Cruz Prize.

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'English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections including two posthumous manuscripts, but none are from Poemasclandestinos (1980). The vital force of the intimate, conversational Spanish challenges the translators. Introductory essays by Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegrâia, and Hardie St. Martin recommend work for the classroom and the general reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
By Jonathan Cohen (trans), Roque Dalton, James Graham (trans), Ralph Nelson (trans), Paul Pines (trans) and Hardie St Martin (editor)

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9781880684351 | Curbstone Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 'English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change.

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The narrator recounts her relationship with her eccentric father and the things she learned about his past

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9781880684085 | Curbstone Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The narrator recounts her relationship with her eccentric father and the things she learned about his past

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