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Fuentes, Carlos
El naranjo
The Orange Tree
Paperback 9789708120319 $12.99
In these short stories, one of the best-known living writers
of the Spanish-speaking world uses the orange tree as
an emblematic symbol of the
mestizaje
. This collection
describes the miseries of the Spanish conquest of America,
the horrors of the European wars, and the exoticisms of
modern life through unforgettable characters: a Portuguese
sailor, a Spanish soldier, Cortés’s sons, and a Hollywood actor.
Fuentes, Carlos
La frontera de cristal
The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories
Paperback 9789708120357 $10.99
This novel portrays Carlos Fuentes’s best; it is aggressive,
sharp, and powerful. With penetrating humor and frank
narrative, the nine stories in this novel depict the rift that has
occurred between the U.S. and Mexico in the last 200 years.
But Fuentes also gives us an insight into the force of Mexican
life and culture, and how it has been able to survive in spite
of injustice and corruption.
Fuentes, Carlos
La muerte de Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Paperback 9789708120470 $11.99
This is the most acclaimed Fuentes novel and one of the
most significant ones of the Latin American boom. It narrates
the last moments of the life of Artemio Cruz, a powerful
and insensible man. Using new literary techniques, Fuentes
offers an integral spectrum of the man’s life through different
points of views, voices, perspectives, and flashbacks. A must-
read for understanding the soul of modern Mexico.
Fuentes, Carlos
La región más transparente
(Edición conmemorativa del 50 aniversario)
Where the Air is Clear (50th Anniversary Edition)
Hardcover 9789705800146 $19.99
This special edition celebrates this masterpiece’s fiftieth
anniversary and the author’s eightieth birthday. Considered
the first grand urban novel about post-revolutionary Mexico,
it is a portrayal of Mexico City’s upper class and a critical
view of its past and present. Includes a bibliography,
a glossary of voices used in the novel, and an index of
saints’ days.
Fuentes, Carlos
Vlad
Vlad
Paperback 9786071105622 $14.99
Life is good, everything is in order and you are happy. Then
your boss gives you an unofficial assignment. Nothing
complicated. He needs you to find a house for an eccentric
Rumanian count, a house close to a ravine. Just when you
thought your job was done, you realize that the nightmare
has just begun. In this house without mirrors and walled
windows, blood flows as fresh as it did five centuries before…
and as sweet in Mexico City as in far away Rumania.
Machado, Antonio
Antología poética
Poetic Anthology
Paperback 9788420468785 $14.95
A collection of poems that covers Machado’s entire literary
career. Expressed in lyrical form, these selections reflect on
mankind and focus on themes like nature and history.
Pérez, Floridor
Pablo Neruda Esencial
Essential Neruda
Paperback 9789562395076 $12.99
Chilean educator Floridor Pérez has compiled in this
essential anthology the most relevant poems, letters, and
speeches of the great Chilean poet and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda. Poetry lovers
will wander through Neruda’s artistic creativity, human
experience, intimate bonds, social vision, and role in history.
This beautiful collection includes a complete and original
chronology that follows the poet from birth to death.
