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  • Martín Rivas

    by Alberto Blest Gana, Tess O'Dwyer ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. The hero of the story is Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Martín Rivas

    by Alberto Blest Gana, Tess O'Dwyer ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. The hero of the story is Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • The Double

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    by José Saramago ...
    Translated by Margaret Costa ...
    A "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. ... Read more

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Metaphysical Classic of Fate, Providence, and Interconnected Lives in Colonial Peru

    by Thornton Wilder, Noelle Ardenwick ...
    Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a brief, luminous philosophical novel that begins with catastrophe: the collapse of a Peruvian bridge in 1714 and the deaths of five travelers. Framed as Brother Juniper's inquiry into whether divine providence or chance governs human fate, the book unfolds in elegant, almost parabolic prose. Its structure—part historical fiction, part moral ... Read more

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  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    by José Saramago ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author: "A capacious, funny, threatening novel" of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal ( The New York Times Book Review) .The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojou... ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

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  • The Vineyard

    A Novel

    by Maria Duenas ...
    Series series Bestselling Historical Romance
    New York Times bestselling author Maria Dueñas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story “destined to become a classic” (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl) about ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in Mexico, Cuba, and Spain in the 1860s—perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah.Mauro Larrea’s fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Tunnel

    by Ernesto Sabato ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed ... Read more

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  • Dom Casmurro

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    "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 contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a ... Read more

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  • Sab and Autobiography

    by Gertrudis Avellaneda ...
    Translated by Nina M. Scott ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    "The first English translation of the major work of a privileged, unconventional, and somewhat neglected Cuban author." — ChoiceEleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its ... Read more

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  • A Manuscript of Ashes

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    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

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  • The Dangerous Summer

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Experience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events. Hemingway’s time in Spain is most often remembered as his experiences with bullfighting, his passion often conveyed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD