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  • Men of Maize

    by Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gerald Martin ...
    Translated by Gerald Martin ...
    **A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of *Mr. President’*s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor TobarA Penguin Classic**Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans—the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    A Life

    by Gerald Martin ...
    'Always compulsive . . . [an] extraordinary portrait' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, SPECTATOR**'Chatty yet coolly analytical . . . a searching, stylish account'PRATINAV ANIL, GUARDIANDazzling and deeply researched, Gerald Martin provides a compelling account of the astonishing and profoundly contradictory life of Mario Vargas Llosa, a literary colossus.When he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and ... Read more

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  • Mr. President

    by Miguel Ángel Asturias ...
    Translated by David Unger ...
    **“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine“A formidable new English translation.” ―The New Yorker“[A] masterful translation.” ―The Washington PostNobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Gabriel García Márquez

    by Gerald Martin ...
    In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez

    by Gerald Martin ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable styles and since the beginning of his career has explored a consistent set of themes, revolving ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    “A superb new translation” (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka.When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories—tales that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's ... Read more

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  • How the World Made the West

    A 4,000 Year History

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    **An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”—The Boston Globe**AN ECONOMIST BEST ... Read more

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2023

    by Heidi Pitlor, Min Jin Lee ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of contemporary fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Novels, Tales, Journeys

    The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers.The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Plague

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Laura Marris ...
    **“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of BooksThe first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers. • "A redemptive book, one ... Read more

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  • Exile and the Kingdom

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn.From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. ... Read more

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