Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set on a mysterious island, The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where every detail is both crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Susan Jill Levine's revision of Ruth Simm's translation offers a new experience of an uncanny work of genius.

Asleep in the Sun

by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it), finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is actually a good deal more agreeable than his wife herself, now occupying the body of the... (more)

El recurso del me?todoAlejo Carpentier

El recurso del me?todo

by Alejo Carpentier

L'Alchimiste

by Michel Collin, Christian Br\c3\bcckner, Paulo Coelho

Text: english

Innocent Erendira: and Other Stories (Perennial Classics)

Innocent Erendira: and Other Stories (Perennial Classics)

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa

This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

Abbadon El Exterminator

by Ernesto Sabato

don Segundo Sombra

by Ricardo Güiraldes

Inspired in Don Segundo Ramirez, a cattle drover Ricardo Güiraldes met personally and whose tomb lies in San Antonio de Areco, very close to the author’s own, don Segundo Sombra more than a novel is a lesson on the gaucho lifestyle. Ricardo Güiraldes, a friend of Jorge Luis Borges –they both founded the legendary magazine Proa– managed to develop a simple and modern language, a high quality mixture of literacy... (more)

The President

by Miguel Angel Asturias

Winner! Nobel Prize for Literature. Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usually identified as Guatemala. The book has been acclaimed for portraying both a totalitarian government and its damaging... (more)

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel

by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

Pedro Paramo.

by Juan Rulfo

El Escritor y Sus Fantasmas

by Ernesto R. Sábato

Este libro nos dice Ernesto Sabato en su portico esta constituido por variaciones de un solo tema, tema que me ha obsesionado desde que escribo: por que, como y para que se escriben ficciones?;No se responde a ello con una teoria formulada externamente como cuerpo de doctrina organico aunque ciertamente si lo sea, y con ejemplar rigor y lucidez, en lo profundo, sino en una forma particularmente viva, al ritmo de... (more)

La isla de Róbinson (Novela)Arturo Uslar Pietri

La isla de Róbinson (Novela)

by Arturo Uslar Pietri

Text: Spanish

Explosion in a Cathedral

by Alejo Carpentier

Fiction Introduction by Timothy Brennan A swashbuckling tale set in the the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the English at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Carpentier's telling, this piratical figure walks into the lives of the wealthy... (more)

The Harp and the Shadow

by Alejo Carpentier

"An extraordinary display of historical inquisitiveness and stylistic maturity."- The New York Times Book Review Exploring the consequences of the European discovery of the Americas and challenging the myth of Columbus, Alejo Carpentier-"the father of magical realism"-studies the first meetings of the Western and American cultures and the tragic consequences of tarnished and abandoned idealism. ... (more)

Conversations à Buenos Aires

by Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato, Michel Bibard

Entre la Letra y la Sangre: Conversaciones Con Carlos Catania

Entre la Letra y la Sangre: Conversaciones Con Carlos Catania

by Ernesto Sabato

Men of Maize (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)

Men of Maize (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)

by Miguel Angel Asturias

This critical edition of Asturias's 1967 Nobel prize-winning work includes the full text of the novel and several essays on the book by noted scholars plus a bibliography. Academic libraries should consider. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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