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
Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 159p., wrps. "La danza de la araña" is the final installment in a trilogy by Laura Alcoba -- the work is preceded by "La casa de los conejos", a story that centers around a girl (herself) at the beginning of the Argentine dictatorship..... More
Buenos Aires: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 143p., wrps. "La mujer en cuestión" centers around Eva Mondino Freiberg, a victim of State terrorism, and the events that unfold within a non-linear structure. Eva becomes an emblematic figure that provides insight into an era: the years of..... More
San Fernando: Editorial DALYA, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 176p., wrps. "La noche de las máscaras" begins on a Monday morning. While the city sleeps, a stranger enters a room and sits next to a boy who offers his services at a bar. Together they engage in a conversation that demolishes..... More
Guatemala: F&G Editores, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 285p., wrps. "El precio del consuelo" is a novel centering around a veteran expatriate journalist who has gained international fame as a war reporter. He returns to his home country to face the consequences of the construction of the Chixoy Dam in Rio..... 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
Spain: Editorial Egales, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 94p., photo, illus., wrps. "Transcaribeñx" is a novel in which the protagonists move in and out of binary man-woman roles, and their personalities become anchored to the transmutation between gender identity and sexual orientation; these characters transmigrate, transform, transmute. Written by Yolanda Arroyo..... More
Spain: Editorial Renacimiento (Biblioteca de Rescate), 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 265p., wrps. First published in 1929, "Serenata del amor triunfante" was one of the first novels that was open about homosexuality, featuring a triangular rivalry between a brother and sister who both desire the same man. The work spirals into... More
México, D.F. Libros Magenta, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 127p., wrps. "El último día de septiembre" is a tragic novel that is a continuation of author Alejandro Badillo's book "La mujer de los macacos". Reality and fiction surround the plot, while various decisions lead the protagonist to an unfortunate position, whereupon..... More
Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Economica, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile (Colección Tierra Firme), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 179p., wrps. "Auditor ausente" is a novel centering around the delicate psyche of a young student who is intellectually strong but emotionally weak, narrating the coarseness of everyday..... 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
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
Buenos Aires: Clarín Alfaguara, Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 249p., wrps. "Cadáver exquisito" is a chilling futuristic novel in which the sudden appearance of a lethal virus that attacks animals irreversibly modifies the world: from wild animals to pets, they must be systematically slaughtered, and their flesh..... More
Boulogne: Saraza Editorial, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 184p., illus., bibl., wrps. "Bolivia-Perú" contains two novels by Argentine writer, psychologist, and teacher Gonzalo María Beladrich. "Bolivia" can be read as a travel journal that evolves into a novel; in contrast, "Perú" reads like a novel that would prefer to be a...... 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. Serie Volumen independiente), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 382p., bibl., wrps. "Los desertores" is a novel that centers around Jota, who observes the trucks that enter and leave the fruit and vegetable market where he worked until his retirement. Suddently, without saying a word, he climbs..... More