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  Last Evenings on Earth

  by Roberto Bolaño

  The first story collection by Roberto Bolaño —"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolaño's story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the... (more)
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  Your Face Tomorrow: Book 1

  Fever and Spear

  by Javier Marías

  Part spy novel, part Henry James, Fever and Spear opens the unfolding seductive metaphysical thriller Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías, "Spain's most erudite literary export" ( The Independent <London>). Acclaiming in The New Yorker "the clandestine greatness of Javier Marías," Wyatt Mason called Your Face Tomorrow: Volume One, Fever and Spear , "Marías's most extravagant showcase for 'literary... (more)
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  The Poem of the Cid

  by Anonymous

  Students of Spanish literature have long been familiar with this eight-hundred-year-old epic detailing the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy Díaz of Bivar, El Cid, and of his part in the long struggle between Christianity and Islam. The epic poem recounts the adventures of the Cid; of his peerless steed, Babieca, and of his two famous swords, Colada and Tizón; of his wife, Doña Ximena, and his two... (more)
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  Cronopios and Famas

  by Julio Cortázar

  Long out of print and now reissued in paperback, Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortzar, perhaps the greatest of Latin American novelists (author of Hopscotch and The Blow-Up and Other Stories). "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the... (more)
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  All Souls

  by Javier Marías

  With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University. In All Souls , our narrator, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for... (more)
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  The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

  by Alvaro Mutis

  Winner of the 2002 Neustadt Prize for World Literature, these seven novellas follow Maqroll's adventures and love affairs from Amazon jungles to Andean peaks. In a world threatened by violence and given over to dirty deals, Maqroll strives at all costs to preserve his honor and maintain his independence. "One of the greatest writers of our time." -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  Dark Back of Time

  by Javier Marías

  A book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls , his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"—the real-life dons and professors and bookshop... (more)
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  Senselessness

  by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness , acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of... (more)
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  Paradiso

  by José Lezama Lima

  First published in Cuba in 1966, Paradiso was hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary literature. It has gained the international reputation of a modern classic and was received with unqualified enthusiasm when it was published in France and Italy. Jose Cemi, the hero of Paradiso, begins life at the turn of the century in Cuba. As an adolescent, Cemi discovers his soulmates, the intellectuals Fronesis and Focion,... (more)
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  Written Lives

  by Javier Marías

  An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" ( The Boston Globe ). In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" ( TLS ), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His... (more)
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  Montano's Malady

  by Enrique Vila-Matas

  A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano's Malady is a writer named José who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique... (more)
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  Nazi Literature in the Americas

  by Roberto Bolaño

  A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolaño: "his generation's premier Latin-American writer" ( The New York Times ). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the... (more)
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  2666

  by Roberto Bolaño

  Se diría que es la figura de Von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán, el hilo secreto que cosería entre sí las cinco «partes» de que se compone 2666, sin duda la obra maestra de Roberto Bolaño. Una fecha en cuya perspectiva tan remota debe ordenarse la impresionante maraña de destinos, de personajes, de líneas argumentales y genéricas, una vastísima constelación marcada por el signo de la pérdida y del... (more)
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  Sunstone/Piedra De Sol

  by Octavio Paz

  Paz's great poem, tr Eliot Weinberger, bilingual
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  The Winners

  by Julio Cortázar

  The winners of a state lottery, a cross sec tion of the citizens of Buenos Aires, have received tickets for a mysterious luxury cruise. Summoned to meet in a popular caf and escorted under the cover of darkness to the secret location of their ship, they embark without knowing where they are headed. Within hours the ship stops; the passengers are informed that a disease has bro ken out among the crew and that... (more)
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  Amulet

  by Roberto Bolaño

  A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a... (more)
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  Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

  by Javier Marías

  A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night,... (more)
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  Your Face Tomorrow: Book 3

  Poison, Shadow, and Farewell

  by Javier Marías

  `the final, and the most powerful ... together the three volumes constitute one of the great novels in modern European literature' --Sunday Telegraph `like so much of Marías's extraordinary writing, it is unforgettable' --TLS `This novel... crowns Marias's trilogy and his translator's lively English rendering of it with narrative honour' --Sunday Times `possibly the most powerful of the series.' --FT "Your... (more)
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  El Secreto De Mal (The Secret of Evil)

  by Roberto Bolaño

  Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed “by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times ),” and as “the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde... (more)
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  Vlad

  by Carlos Fuentes

  Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won’t mind a few disappearances? “Vlad” is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula . In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and... (more)