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“stephen tapscott”

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  • Selected Prose and Prose-Poems

    by Gabriela Mistral, Stephen Tapscott ...
    The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Brother, I'm Dying

    National Book Award Finalist

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • In this powerful work of nonfiction that takes up immigration and the strength of family, Edwidge Danticat tells the story of her beloved father and uncle – how her father came to the US; and how his brother later died at the hands of the Department of Homeland Security while he pleaded asylum trying to escape untenable violence at home.A ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Disposable People: Inspired by true events

    by Ezekel Alan ...
    "Brian was already dead when they got there, but they still got something to watch as some of the farmers continued to chop. Chop, chop, chop. Some dogs find it hard to stop barking at cars that have long driven away.Diary entry: Watch him wail. Wail Brian wail. See them chop. Chop, chop, chop. See him bleed. Bleed boy bleed. See them hack. Hack, hack, hack.Here are three things I just can't do, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Havana Lunar

    by Robert Arellano ...
    Series series The Cuban Noir Novels
    Edgar Award finalist: A "hypnotic" crime novel set in Cuba after the collapse of the USSR (Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country).One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of a teenage jinetera named Julia. She takes refuge in his clinic to break away from the abusive chulo who ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bartleby & Co.

    by Enrique Vila-Matas ...
    Translated by Jonathan Dunne ...
    A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Midnight Mass and Other Stories

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated and sly erotic title story, a classic of Brazilian literature, to such brief ironic tales, not previously translated into English, as "A Game," "Coimbra the Clerk," and "Sooner the Tarpeian Rock." ... Read more

    $3.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hunter of Stories

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Translated by Mark Fried ...
    A fearless and poetic final work by a legendary Latin American writer that masterfully blends history, social commentary, and personal ruminations to capture a brilliant mind at work, and a region in constant flux"More generous, wise, and wonderful than I dared hope." — Naomi Klein, author of DoppelgangerIn Hunter of Stories, master storyteller Eduardo Galeano brings his signature style to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • El general fray Félix Aldao

    by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ...
    El general fray Félix Aldao es una semblanza de la vida de Félix Aldao, una de las grandes figuras militares de la Argentina del siglo XIX.Félix Aldao tuvo una valerosa participación en la batalla de Chacabuco, decisiva en la emancipación de Chile. Más tarde ascendió ocupando diversos puestos en las jerarquías militares.Entre los acontecimientos que protagonizó estuvo la batalla en los Potreros de ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • The Latino Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Rodrigo Lazo, Jesse Alemán ...
    Series Book 18 - America and the Long 19th Century
    A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

    by Guillermina De Ferrari ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Cervantes

    Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote

    Edited by Jeremy Robbins, Edwin Wiliamson ...
    This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures and cultures of numerous countries throughout the world. Containing chapters written in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD