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  • The Underdogs

    Translated by E. Munguia Jr. ...
    Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution,The Underdogsrecounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution

    Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico

    by Max Parra ...
    The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution (and Villa's ultimate defeat and death), the new ruling elite, resentful of his enormous popularity, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    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 Watcher in the Pine

    by Rebecca Pawel ...
    Series Book 3 - Sergeant Tejada Investigations
    The third Carlos Tejada investigationSpain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada’s first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this “promotion” is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but the jail, and his own men seem strangely hostile. Is it just their suspicion of his wife’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Forging of a Rebel

    The Forge, The Track and The Clash

    by Arturo Barea ...
    Translated by Ilsa Barea ...
    This astonishing autobiographical trilogy—hailed by George Orwell and Gabriel García Márquez—is “the most definitive and personal account of Spain’s history during . . . the 20th century” (Guardian).The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War.Arturo Barea’s masterpiece ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Death of a Nationalist

    by Rebecca Pawel ...
    Series Book 1 - Sergeant Tejada Investigations
    Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y León is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    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

  • Summer Snow

    by Rebecca Pawel ...
    Series Book 4 - Sergeant Tejada Investigations
    Praise for the Carlos Tejada Alonso y León series:“Rebecca Pawel [has] set the mystery world agog.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World“The best new mystery author to come around in a long time . . . an astonishing achievement in writing and psychological development . . . she knows how to make a reader care. Her books are intense, the writing impeccable. She propels the plot at a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Old Gringo

    A Novel

    Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction.One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mark of Zorro

    Classic Swashbuckling Adventure

    Series Book 19 - Action and Adventure Collection
    Originally titled The Curse of Capistrano in its 1919 debut, this exciting tale achieved immortal fame thanks to Douglas Fairbanks’s 1920 blockbuster film, The Mark of Zorro—a cinematic triumph that inspired Johnston McCulley to retitle his novel and dedicate it to Fairbanks. Set in Mexican California during the 1820s, the story follows the career of Don Diego Vega, by all appearances an effete ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law of Return

    by Rebecca Pawel ...
    Series Book 2 - Sergeant Tejada Investigations
    The second Carlos Tejada investigationSpain, 1940: Lieutenant Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, where he studied law before the Civil War. His new duties include monitoring parolees—former professors who were fired for protesting a Franco decree. Elena Fernandez, having lost her job because of her political leanings, has returned home to Salamanca from Madrid, where she and Tejada ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Underdogs

    A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

    Translated by E. Munguia Jr. ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution,The Underdogsrecounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political ... Read more

    $3.99 USD