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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their... (more)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)

The General in His Labyrinth

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final... (more)

Pedro Paramo

by Juan Rulfo

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro Páramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a... (more)

No One Writes to the Colonel

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.

The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present

The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present

by Harold Augenbraum

The Latino Reader is the first anthology to present the full history of this important American literary tradition, from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. Selections include works of history, memoirs, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. Adding to the importance of the volume are several selections from rare and little-known texts that have been translated into English for the... (more)

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months,... (more)

American Dreams

by Eduardo Gonza?lez Vian?a

No one knows how Porfirio entered the United States. Some say he traveled on the winds of a sandstorm, others say he walked over the hills, and still others say he flew. In the first story of this masterful collection, Porfirio, the donkey, follows the very real, human flight north. Whimsical and magical, Porfirio's journey becomes mythologized as part of the lore of the trail of people moving north. From... (more)

O Poetry! Oh Poesia! Poems of Oregon and Peru (SIGNED)Eduardo M. And Soldati, Joseph A. Gonzalez-Viana

O Poetry! Oh Poesia! Poems of Oregon and Peru (SIGNED)

by Eduardo M. And Soldati, Joseph A. Gonzalez-Viana

Los sueños de America

by Eduardo Gonza?lez Vian?a

¿Por que la gente deja su pais, su familia y sus costumbres en busca de un mundo que muchas veces solo conoce de oidas? ¿Por que es tan poderoso el sueño americano? Hemos soñado que este es un planeta de movimientos regulares en el universo. Sin embargo, los hombres y mujeres que transitan por estos caminan hacia el norte sin intervalos ni programas nos hacen ver que vivimos en una tierra sin reglas. ... (more)

Two Badges: The Lives Of Mona Ruiz

by Mona Ruiz

With this riveting autobiography, Mona Ruiz and co-author Geoff Boucher spin a gripping tale of one woman’s private war to escape the tentacles of the street gangs that have carved her barrio into turfs where one misstep leads to violence. This engrossing memoir charts Ruiz’s journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life—a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high... (more)

Cien anos de soledad y un homenaje/ One Hundred Years of Solitude and a tribute: Discursos De Gabriel Garcia Marquez Y Carlos Fuentes

Cien anos de soledad y un homenaje/ One Hundred Years of Solitude and a tribute: Discursos De Gabriel Garcia Marquez Y Carlos Fuentes

by Carlos Fuentes

En una bella edicion y dentro de su coleccion Centzontle, el FCE recupera los discursos de Gabriel Garcia Marquez y Carlos Fuentes pronunciados en torno a una conmemoracion unica: los 80 anos del Premio Nobel colombiano y los 40 anos de la novela Cien anos de soledad. Una celebracion de la cual el lector puede ser testigo privilegiado a traves de este libro. Garcia Marquez recuerda en estas paginas que ni en el... (more)

Poems. (English & Spanish.)

by Mark Eisner, Pablo Neruda

This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Haas, Jim Harrison, Stephen Kessler and Jack... (more)

Dreaming in Cuban

by Cristina Garcia

"Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Now available in a Spanish language edition from Ballantine Books. Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family... (more)

Itªs All in the Frijoles: 100 Famous Latinos Share Real-Life Stories, Time-Tested Dichos, Favorite Folktales, and Inspiring Words of Wisdom

Itªs All in the Frijoles: 100 Famous Latinos Share Real-Life Stories, Time-Tested Dichos, Favorite Folktales, and Inspiring Words of Wisdom

by Yolanda Nava

Do you wish you could remember all the words to the childhood songs your grandmother taught you, so you could sing them to your children? Have you ever found yourself repeating the dichos, or proverbs, your parents used to lecture you with? If you are looking for a way to get back in touch with your culture, It's All in the Frijoles is the perfect start. A treasure trove of cherished folktales, lullabies,... (more)

The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)

by Jose Donoso, Hardie St. Martin, Leonard Mades

This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative,... (more)

Down These Mean Streets

by Piri Thomas

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street... (more)

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

by Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his... (more)

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly... (more)

20 Poemas De Amor Y Una Cancion Desesperada/20 Love Poems And A Desperate Sonnet

20 Poemas De Amor Y Una Cancion Desesperada/20 Love Poems And A Desperate Sonnet

by Hugo Montes, Pablo Neruda

A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality.

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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa

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by Harold Augenbraum

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by Eduardo Gonza?lez Vian?a

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by Eduardo Gonza?lez Vian?a

by Mona Ruiz

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