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De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses...
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"San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete...
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"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
10) Ficciones
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
11) Ficciones
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The most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
12) Hopscotch
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"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance...
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance...
14) Retorno 201
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"En el Retorno 201 de la Ciudad de México, el autor pasó su infancia, adolescencia y parte de su juventud. Ahí su narrativa se topó con historias que hienden como cuchillos, en donde afloran la violencia y el amor, la ternura y la brutalidad, la paz y la furia. Con agudo instinto callejero, Arriaga presenta personajes llenos de intensidad y de contradicciones, al límite del caos y enfrentados a complejos dilemas morales. En sus historias,...
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Puede el destino conseguir que vuelva el amor después de la fatalidad? Irene tiene todo para ser feliz junto a Álex, su marido. La vida les sonríe en todos los aspectos: sus trabajos como profesores de universidad y la pasión que sienten el uno por el otro les llena por completo. Pero una enfermedad les priva de su único hijo e Irene rechaza la actitud de conformismo y resignación que ha adoptado su marido. Tras esta situación de desencuentro...
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A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to sit down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town, transforming himself into a living art installation. Once in...
19) El nino nuevo
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Lazlo, who has just moved to the United States from Hungary, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.
20) Quédate conmigo
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"Una intensa y especial historia de amor narrada de manera muy íntima y en primera persona, desde el momento en el que Claudia está a punto de perder su vida a causa de un fatídico accidente. Le habla a Ismael, el gran amor de su vida, que será quien deberá decidir el duro momento en el que desconectar las máquinas que mantienen en este mundo a Claudia. Ella, un alma entre este y el otro mundo, recordará su historia, la de ambos; esos...