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  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

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  • Buenos Aires

    Innercities Cultural Guides

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 2 - Innercities: Cultural Guides
    Nick Caistor has lived for several years in Buenos Aires as well as visiting it often over the past three decades. He has reported on Argentina for the BBC and is a translator as well as the author of several books on Latin America. The architect Le Corbusier once called Buenos Aires the capital of an imaginary empire . From its foundation in the sixteenth century, Argentina's main city has been a ... Read more

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  • A Legend of the Future

    DescriptionA canonical, riveting work from the patron saint of Cuban science fiction that is reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odysseyand now available to an English readership for the first time.A morally profound chamber piece, Agustín de Rojas’ A Legend of the Future takes place inside a damaged spaceship following the failure of a mission to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. The ... Read more

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  • The Year 200

    The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’s The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power.Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian ... Read more

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  • Mexico City

    Cradle of Empires

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series series
    Mexico City has always been a seat of empire. In its grandiose pretentions and sheer swagger, it gives the impression of power exercised over great distances. And yet this power has frequently been contested, lending the city a tough, battle-hardened look. At the same time, life in the Mexican capital can be carefree and intoxicating, and it continues to offer any visitor not only glimpses of past ... Read more

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  • Once Upon Argentina

    Translated by Nick Caistor, Garcia Lorenza ...
    Once Upon Argentina tells the sentimental and political story of a family that comes from everywhere, and of a country’s wandering, migratory cultureIn the beginning it was Jacobo, born in tsarist Russia, who fled to Buenos Aires and married a young Lithuanian woman named Lidia. Or was it René, a French sculptor who knelt before no one, and his wife Louise Blanche, who left France only to end up ... Read more

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  • Octavio Paz

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

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  • Fidel Castro

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 47 - Critical Lives
    The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel. By contrast, Nick Caistor brings together personal details and a discussion of the ideas driving Castro throughout his life; his ultimate ... Read more

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  • A Long Petal of the Sea

    A Novel

    Translated by Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.“One of the most richly imagined portrayals of the Spanish Civil War to date, and one of the strongest and most affecting works in [Isabel Allende’s] long ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Things We Don't Do

    Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia ...
    Mind-bending set of stories—the first of Neuman's in English—calls to mind the best of Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges. ... Read more

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  • Bearing Witness

    Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism

    ‘Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of Franco’—Paul Preston, historian and author of Architects of Terror‘A humane, vivid and painfully honest testimony of incarceration under two fascist systems that flares up an urgent signal in our moment of ... Read more

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  • Sensitive Anatomy

    Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia ...
    In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it.The thirty chapters of Sensitive Anatomy form a celebration of the body in its entirety. This is a poetic, political and erotic journey across the very matter that makes us. It is a book that reveals how we see ourselves and how we are made to see. It stands against the culture of ... Read more

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