Cultural Region/Latin America
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The Green House
$18.99 Add to cart“Dazzling. . . . An imaginative documentation of nature’s sway over man.” —New York Times Book Review
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, an important and passionate novel set in Peru, t
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 405
- Publish Date: February 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060732792
- Language: English
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
$29.95 Read moreMaqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mutis, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0940322919
- Language: English
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The Hostage
$9.99 Read moreW. E. B. Griffin’s #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this a… [more below]
- Series: Presidential Agent Novels
- Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0515142409
- Language: English
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
$18.00 Add to cartIn these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressi
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531234
- Language: English
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Tono the Infallible
$17.95 Read moreI was alone when someone pounded on my door. Who could it be?
So begins Tono the Infallible, Evelio Rosero’s gripping novel about an intense relationship between a writer and a sociopath. Visited by hi
- Author: Rosero, Evelio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0811228819
- Language: English
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The Barbarian Nurseries (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartTenth Anniversary Edition
Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco- Author: Tobar, Héctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 125082401X
- Language: English
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Aztec Blood
$22.99 Add to cartThe third volume in Gary Jennings’ historical epic that began with the Aztec and Aztec Autumn. Now comes the thrilling Aztec Blood.
The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indi- Series: Aztec #3
- Author: Jennings, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0765399024
- Language: English
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The German Room
$15.95 Read moreHow do you will a life into order? Adrift in Germany, a pregnant, aimless Argentine and her small circle of friends try and fail to find out.
Fall in Heidelberg, and in a student residence a not-studen
- Author: Maliandi, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 137
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1999859332
- Language: English
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Slum Virgin
$16.95 Add to cart“Queer writing at its most exhilarating.” –Times Literary Supplement
The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and deba
- Author: Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: August 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1999722701
- Language: English
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Captains of the Sands
$18.00 Read moreA Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
A Penguin Classics They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runa- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Amado, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 014310635X
- Language: English
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The Bloomsday Dead
$19.99 Add to cartIn the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain, tough guy Michael Forsythe—bad-boy antihero of the critically acclaimed Dead I Well May Be an… [more below]
- Author: McKinty, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1451613237
- Language: English
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The Impostor
$17.99 Add to cartTwo exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimacies
In “The Impostor,” a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt. Ve
- Author: Telles Ribeiro, Edgard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 195427615X
- Language: English
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The Year I Went Away
$20.00 Add to cartJulio Von Artens, after self-destructing his marriage and career in finance, is left with fourteen days to find a new place to live. Adrift in Buenos Aires, the city of fury, he takes up residence in
- Author: Schneider, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1732576653
- Language: English
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Poso Wells
$14.95 Add to cartCelebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemç–£’s first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just c
- Author: Alemán, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867552
- Language: English
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Dom Casmurro
$24.99 Add to cart“A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrar… [more below]
- Series: Library of Latin America
- Author: Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0195103092
- Language: English
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The Friendly Persuasion
$14.95 Add to cartA quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community…. [more below]
- Author: West, Jessamyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 06 2011
- ISBN10: 015602909X
- Language: English
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Dislocations
$15.95 Read moreHow do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer’s has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?
In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations re
- Author: Molloy, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867358
- Language: English
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Here Be Icebergs
$15.95 Read moreThe weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.
The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families m
- Author: Adaui, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867196
- Language: English
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Confesión
$16.95 Read moreBrutal y sobrecogedora, una novela con la dictadura argentina como tel?n de fondo.
Tres historias que forman parte de una misma historia. En 1941, en una ciudad de provincias argentina, una ni?a con
- Author: Kohan, Mart?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1913867676
- Language: Spanish
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The Story of the Night
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people ha- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743272714
- Language: English
