Sevilla: Editorial Guantanamera, (ciencia Ficción), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 461p., wrps. "Proyecto ángel" is a science fiction novel centering around Lídel Xactos, who returns to his life as a mercenary after a hundred and fifty years away from fighting. Meanwhile his son, Angel Xactos, leaves Earth to travel to another... More
Lima: Editorial Eureka, El Portal Celeste, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 610p., wrps. In "Sangre de patriota", the Chilean Army has occupied the capital of Peru after winning the war. However, a series of murders of Chilean soldiers have made the military commanders uneasy. In the occupied city, stories unfold: A.... More
México, D.F. Secretaría de Cultura, Nitro/Press (Punto de Uiebre Colección), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 301p., photos, illus., wrps. "Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna)" is a novel set in Acapulco at the beginning of the seventies, and narrates the endless journey of a tarot card reader, an Acapulco dealer... More
Buenos Aires: Blatt & Ríos, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 77p., wrps. "El gran misterio" is a novel by César Aira set in the positivist climate of Latin America during the 19th century. Aira is also the author of "La luz argentina", "El vestido rosa", "Cómo me hice monja", "La prueba"... More
México, D.F. Ediciones Era, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 100p., wrps. In "Entre los indios", the devil decides to appear to a group of Indians. His appearance, he thinks, will cause panic. But apparently, he's wrong. On the night he chooses to appear, there's a banquet. Men and women eat and... More
Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 74p., wrps. "La invención del tren fantasma" is comprised of three micro-stories that present a subtle and non-demagogic critique of capitalism and its processes of dehumanization. More
Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora (Ficciones), 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 95p., wrps. "Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero" chronicles German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas's travels to North and South America during the 1800s. Rugenda was widely considered to be the best of the few traveling painters in the West;... More
Barcelona: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 137p., wrps. "Prins" tells the story of a famous author dedicated to writing gothic novels who has decided to leave the trade definitively. Frustrated and bitter for having allowed his literary aspirations of youth to be buried under the demands... More
Santiago de Chile: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2016. Second Edition. Paperback. 355p., wrps. "Sonata del olvido" centers around the story of an itinerant musician, who, upon returning home one morning after a tour in New Orleans, discovers that his wife is sleeping with an attractive twenty-something. From that moment... More
Cochabamba: 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 197p., wrps. "Tradiciones bolivianas" is a novel about the beliefs, customs, superstitions, and rites of the Bolivian people, encapsulated in the Santa Vera Cruz festival of fertility, celebrated in Cochabamba every year in May. The narrative centers around an upper class white woman who is... More
Buenos Aires: Paradiso, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 76p., wrps. "La paliza" is a novel that takes place in a hostil and primitive world, narrating the life of a disenchanted child living in a world of infantilized adults. Written by Marcos Apolo Benítez, who is also the author of "Chaco" and... More
México, D.F: Alfaguara, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 342p., wrps. "1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla" is a novel that begins in the summer of 1391 with the assault on the Jewish quarter of Seville, and concludes with the voyage of Columbus to the Indies in August 1492... More
Mexico City: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. 405p., wrps. "La zona del silencio" is an enigmatic region of northern Mexico in the middle of the desert. There meteorites and cosmic dust continually fall; It is even said that aliens visit it and that people have disappeared there... More
Sevilla: Editorial Guantanamera, (Narrativa), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 231p., wrps. "El milagro de los siete mares" is a novel full of of empires, an announced savior, naval battles, fortune tellers, incandescent serpents, geniuses, dreams, secrets, and a ruined world that's been covered by water. Civilization had to start again from... More
México, D.F: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Alfaguara, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 689p., wrps. "El salvaje" is a novel that centers around Juan Guillermo, who at the age of 17 was orphaned and completely alone. Three years before, his older brother Carlos was killed by religious fanatics. Saddled with grief... More
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, (Narrativas hispánicas, 597), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 187p., wrps. "República luminosa" is a novel that begins with the startling appearance of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin, an event that completely disrupted the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city located between the jungle and river... More
La Habana: Ediciones Cubanas, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 238p., illus., wrps. "BIOGRAFÍA DE UN CIMARRON" is a classic Cuban novel first published in 1966 that narrates the historical-cultural process from colonial times to the Cuban revolution, told through the narrative of the protagonist, Esteban Montejo: a slave, guerrilla fighter and... More
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico: Arlequín Editorial y Servicios, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 127p., wrps. "Premio del bien y castigo del mal" tells two stories simultaneously: One day Concha, who is virtuous, good, and generous, finds Valentina, who in her youth was vain, cruel, and selfish. Valentina tells Concha her past as... More
Mexico, D.F. Almadía Ediciones, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 219p., wrps. "En el cuerpo una voz" is a novel that centers around two brothers fleeing from the hitmen of El General, a former military officer known to practive cannibalism, after the dissolution of Boliva's government and laws. Amid the chaos, brigades... More
México, D.F. Editorial Sexto Piso (Col. Narrativa), 2014. 1st ed. Paperback. 216p., b&w illus. "Jacobo reloaded" is a multi-layered, intertextual work that draws on religious and literary texts, most significantly a fictitious unfinished work by the Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist Joseph Roth. Author Mario Ballatin has also recently published “Gallinas... More
Barcelona: Tusquets Editores (Colección Andanzas), 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 276p., wrps. ''Corazón amarillo sangre azul'' centers around two women: one is an aging, eccentric and well-known writer from Barcelona who suddenly shows up to her brother's house and announces, ''I've come here to die.'' The other woman, in her forties... More
México, D.F: Alfaguara, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 218p., wrps. In "Vuelo de cuervos", a young poet is ordered to document a dangerous military mission consisting of the violent and forced evacuation of Miskito Indians from their ancestral habitat in the Nicaragua to an area named, ironically, Tasba Pri, which in... More
Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones (Colección Narrativa), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 137p., wrps. The protagonist of "El tiempo de los castaños" is a sixty-year-old man. He is sitting in a square thinking about Amalia, his love, while holding a letter from his brother that contains news of a disease he... More
México, D.F: Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 266p., wrps. "El libro de Ana (Novela karenina)" is a fictional novel on Anna Karenina -- After her death, the czar wanted to a portrait of Ana for his collection. Upon going to the cellar to retrieve this portrait... More
México, D.F. Grupo Editorial Penguin Random House, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 950p., wrps. "Infancia e invención" is a set of stories written by Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa, who has recieved the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her novel "Antes", as well as five New York Emmys for the television show "Nueva... More