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  • Hungry Souls

    What the Bible Says About Eating Disorder

    by Catherine Boyle ...
    Of all the books written about eating disorder, only one looks at what the Bible says about this all-too-common struggle in the lives of young women. Hungry Souls digs deeply into God's Word to uncover the origins of eating disorder in history, sins that contribute to anorexia and bulimia, prophecies relevant to eating disorder, the relationship between eating disorder and sexuality, an anorexic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin American Plays in Translation

    Modern Stories of Gender, Class and Society in Latin America

    by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas, Xavier Villanova ...
    Translated by William Gregory, Catherine Boyle ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Six new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, newly translated for an English-language audience.From streetwise urchins with a sharp eye for political discourse in Chile to artists who dream of better futures amidst crisis in Perú; from fairy-tale parodies of Princess Diana as an expression of gender-based violence to mundane, everyday acts of love amid hardship, Latin ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays

    Translated by Sophie Stevens, William Gregory, Stephen Brown0, Catherine Boyle1, Rachel Toogood2, Kate Eaton3 ...
    by Gabriel Calderón, Jimena Márquez, Sandra Massera, Marianella Morena, Josefina Trías, Leonor Courtoisie ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    The rich and varied 21st-century playwriting scene of Uruguay is showcased in this eclectic and fascinating collection, bringing together the work of established figures with that of provocative emerging artists, all published in English for the first time.Spanning several generations, the six award-winning dramatists featured in this volume are leading figures in shaping Uruguay's vibrant ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The House of Desires

    by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ...
    Translated by Catherine Boyle ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season. ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Multilingual Narratives of a Pandemic

    Covid 19 and Worldmaking

    by Professor Catherine Boyle, Various ...
    Series series Language Acts and Worldmaking
    We narrate everything. We construct the world around us by telling its stories, shaping the language we use to describe what is happening to us; language that is used and adapted in the media in response to moments of crisis. This language in turn shapes how we see the world. This is what we call 'worldmaking'. When we look for solutions to problems, we so often start by telling stories to each ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays

    by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, Fabián Miguel Díaz, Leonel Giacometto, Franco Calluso, Juan Ignacio Fernandez, Candelaria Sabagh ...
    Translated by Catherine Boyle, Gwen MacKeith, William Gregory, Rosalind Harvey0, Kate Eaton1 ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • The Hive

    by Camilo José Cela ...
    Translated by James Womack ...
    Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, ... Read more

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  • The Foreign Girls

    by Sergio Olguin ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Series Book 2 - Veronica Rosenthal Mystery
    Veronica is a successful young Buenos Aires journalist, beautiful, unattached, with a healthy appetite for bourbon, married men and, on occasion, foreign women. She is a fascinating and complicated heroine, driven by a sense of justice but also by lust and ambition.The second in a series of three by Olguín, following on from the acclaim for Fragility of Bodies. The Financial Times selected it as ... Read more

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  • La Casa Azul

    Inspired by the writings of Frida Kahlo

    by Sophie Faucher, Neil Bartlett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'I took my tears and turned them into paintings'In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The life is one of struggle - with love, with the body, with her country, and most of all, with her art.La Casa Azul is a collaboration between Quebeçois playwright Sophie Faucher, who also played Frida ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Mistress of Desires

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Sebastian Doggart ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A powerful exploration of machismo and sexual desire, by Peru's most acclaimed writer.A Peruvian desert town in the 1940s. When a young girl disappears it seems that only La Chunga, the barwoman, knows the truth, but refuses to tell. Undeterred, the local men make up their own version of what happened in an attempt to extract the full story.Mario Vargas Llosa's play Mistress of Desires ( La Chunga ... Read more

    $14.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cloudburst

    An Anthology of Hispanic Canadian Short Stories

    by Hugh Hazelton ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    Cloudburst is a milestone in Canadian literature. For over a half-century, beginning with the Spanish Civil War and continuing through the coups d’état and military repression in South and Central America in the 1970s and 80s, Spanish-speaking writers have been arriving in Canada as exiles and immigrants and have been creating new works in their native language. Cloudburst is the first anthology ... Read more

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