Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos. 2007. first edition. Paperback. 182p., wrps. [Novel. Contains references to stories by Cortázar, Onetti and Ribeyro. This highly important Latin American author’s best known titles include the novels “Un mundo para Julius” (1970), “Reo de nocturnidad” (Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2002, Spain), “El..... More about Las obras infames de Pancho Marambio
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. v, 247p., wrps. The explosion of a firecracker in a shopping center bathroom leaves seventeen injured, three fatalities, a network of false culprits, circumstancial heroes, and war victims. The culprit, Pedro, induces his mother Cecilia, to ponder the past two decades of her..... More about La mujer que hablaba sola
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. v, 147p., wrps. A novel that speaks on invisible barriers and the stories we tell ourselves to pass through them more easily. Without accommodating sentimentality, Álvarez invites one to contemplate the asymmetries of an uneven surface, in whose abyss, empathy and solidarity sometimes..... More about La superficie del día
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. viii, 255p., wrps. Reveals an intense and disturbing way into how young elite appropriate the bloodiest customs of drug trafficking. This novel illustrates the moral wear that corrodes an entire society and how in a city of more than four thousand homicides a...... More about Amigo de nadie
Buenos Aires: Editorial Planeta, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 102p., wrps. In "Una madre protectora", Lorenzo Roy, a charismatic, bohemian painter and ex-alcoholic, returns to his circle of friends with a new woman, Sigrir. Quickly, they get married and have a son. But as time goes on, he realizes that perhaps..... More about Una madre protectora
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2020. 7th Edition. Paperback. vii, 420p., wrps. Private investigator Frank Molina---Cannabis user, drunkard, and psychiatric patient---is contacted by the police to aid them with strange murders that took place in the Santa Fe neighborhood; an impersonator of Jack the Ripper murders prostitutes without contemplation; Molina's steps cross..... More about Akelarre
Montevideo: Editorial Planeta, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 347p., facsimiles, tables, wrps. This book constitutes a pluralistic effort to account for the validity of Alberto Methol Ferré, one of the great figures of Uruguayan thought in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The..... More about Reflexiones sobre geopolítica y la región
Colombia: Editorial Planeta, 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. iii, 218p., wrps. An exercise in memory, this work displays the emotional cartography of an individual who discovers the ways in which man often falls prey to his own limitations. Narrated in two distinct moments in time, between a present that collapses and..... More about Las margaritas : Historia de un hombre minúsculo
México, D.F: Editorial Planeta, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 320p., bibl., wrps. "La gloria y el ensueño que forjó una patria 1" is a study on foundational events in Mexico's history that defined the country, and forged and solidified its identity. The work focuses on the period between 1854 and 1858..... More about La gloria y el ensueño que forjó una patria 1: 1854-1858. De la revolucion de Ayutla a la...
Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. 417p., wrps. Novela ganadora del Premio Biblioteca Breve 2020, una obra de la escritora española Raquel Taranilla, profesora de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense. Ha impartido clase en la Universidad de Barcelona y en la Universidad Hamad..... More about Noche y océano
Montevideo: Editorial Planeta, Ariel, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. 245p., wrps. The book covers the life of former Uruguayan president Jose Alberto Mujica Cordano, based on a careful interview conducted by the current Minister of Education of Argentina. Argentine President Alberto Fernández and former Brazilian President Lula Da Silva write in..... More about Mujica por Pepe: Conversaciones con Nicolás Trotta
Montevideo: Editorial Planeta, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. 285p., facsiile, table, wrps. The book carries out an analysis of the unions in Uruguay. Review issues of leadership, internal democracy and representativeness. More about La cara oculta de los sindicatos en Uruguay