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  • Don Quixote

    by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman ...
    Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote, chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • In the Night of Time

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A "hypnotic" novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man's quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books).October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Feast of the Goat

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.Haunted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • In Praise of Reading and Fiction

    The Nobel Lecture

    by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Destiny and Desire

    A Novel

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Winner of the Cervantes PrizeCarlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods.Josué Nadal has lost more than his innocence: He has been robbed of his life—and his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Bad Girl

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A New York TimesNotable Book of 2007From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a **"...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--**The New York Times Book ReviewRicardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager kno... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why Translation Matters

    by Edith Grossman ...

    $17.29 USD

  • The Dream of the Celt

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    This "vast and intriguing novel" explores the life of an Irish nationalist who exposed Britain's colonial crimes—by the Nobel Prize–winning author ( Guardian, UK).In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world—especially the native populations ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Exemplary Novels

    by Miguel de Cervantes ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death   The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Death in the Andes

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Three men disappear in the Peruvian Andes where a guerilla group resides, in the Nobel Laureate's "intriguing political detective story . . . A terrific novel" ( Kirkus Reviews).In Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa returns to the world of Corporal Lituma and his assistant Tomas Correo, last seen in Who Killed Palomino Molero?. Through his chilling tale of mystery, Vargas Llosa weaves an ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • News of a Kidnapping

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series Vintage International
    AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He also depicts the keening ache of Colombia after nearly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook