Presents a collection of essays on Latin America, covering such topics as authoritarianism, revolution, obstacles to development, democracy, art, and literature.
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A reflection on the state of infatuation, which can be positive, noble and selfless or can be excessive and abusive. Also a novel about the impossibility of ever knowing the truth.
"Cada mañana María Dolz contempla en una cafetería a una pareja a la que no conoce de nada, cuya felicidad intuye y acaso envidia. Este ritual la ayuda a empezar la jornada, hasta que un día se entera de la muerte del hombre a manos de un enajenado. Más tarde, una relación impre…
"Un viejo coronel retirado espera va al puerto todos los viernes a esperar la llegada de la carta oficial que responda a la justa reclamación de sus derechos por los servicios prestados a la patria, pero la carta nuna llega"--Page 4 of cover.
Cuarenta años después de la desaparición sin resolver de Harriet Vanger desde una isla propiedad de su familia poderosa, su tío alquila el periodista investigador Mikael Blomqvist y una joven hacker muy original, Lisbeth Salander, para pesquisar. Forty years after the disappear…
RESUMEN: En un campamento minero de las montañas de Perú, el cabo Lituma y su adjunto Tomás viven bajo la constante amenaza de los guerrilleros maoístas de Sendero Luminoso, y debatiéndose con misterios sin aclarar, como ciertas desapariciones inexplicables.
Corporal Lituma, an officer of the Guardia Civil, is sent to a post in Naccos, the Andes. Once there, he will try to solve what happened to three missing men. His only aide is his young adjutant Carreño, a serrucho who has spent years in the lowland cities. The two are fearsomel…
A Spanish language Christion novel.
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
A historical novel depicts the life of the Mexican revolutionary based on the structure and sensibility of the Mexican historical ballad known as the corrido.
El océano de Olivia
by Henkes, Kevin, Huanqui, Lourdes
fromPunto de encuentro (Editorial Everest)
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Type: Book
After the death of Olivia Barstow in a bicycle accident, her former classmate, Marta Boyle, feels drawn to her "ocean." She spends a summer with her grandmother on the Atlantic Coast and feels that she would like to be a writer.