Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 336p., wrps. "El código de nuremberg" is a novel that explores one of the most delicate issues of contemporary reality: the advancement of medicine through the experimentation of new drugs in humans. The sordid plot centers around a business that makes millions on..... More about El código de nuremberg
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 about Proyecto ángel
Bogotá: Penguin Random House, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 174p., wrps. "El tiempo del ruido" is an award winning crime novel by Colombian writer Juan David Aguilar Ariza. Previously, Aguilar Ariza has won the short story contest for the virtual review i.letrada.co with his short story "Vuelta al mundo en bicicleta"..... More about El tiempo del ruido
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 about Sangre de patriota
Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 316p., illus., wrps. In 1963, Peruvian Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa published his first novel, "La ciudad y los perros." His work drew the attention of critics and the public alike, turning him into an overnight..... More about La ciudad y los perros: biografía de una novela
Monterrey, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, (Colección Coetáneos), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 184p., wrps. "Los últimos rostros" is a novel by playwright, academic, and essayist Coral Aguirre, who has published titles such as "La cruz en el Espejo", "Larga Distancia", and "El resplandor de la memoria" More about Los últimos rostros
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 about La invención del tren fantasma
Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, (Ser. Ficciónes; 79.), 2006. first edition. Paperback. 143p. [Novel. Aira has published over 50 works of fiction and literary criticism. His recent novels include “Mil gotas” (2003), “Las noches de Flores” (2004), “Yo era una chica moderna” (2004), “Yo era una niña de siete años”..... More about La cena
Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. 77p., wrps. [Novella. A leading contemporary Argentine author, Aira won the Premio Konex in 1994 and 2004, and a Guggenheim grant in 1996. His over 50 novels include ”Yo era una niña de siete años” (2005), “Cómo me reí” (2005), “El pequeño monje..... More about La vida nueva
Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2018. first edition. Paperback. 192p., wrps. At fifty, the narrator of "Un sueño realizado" is reunited with a woman he's loved since youth, who until then had remained as a platonic, impossible love, always held at a distance. Suddenly, as in the fairy tales, everything comes together..... More about Un sueño realizado
Buenos Aires: Blatt & Ríos, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. 80p., wrps. "El gran misterio" is a novel by Argentine author César Aira, which is 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..... More about El gran misterio
Buenos aires: Blatt & Ríos, (Biblioteca Cesar Aira), 2019. Third Edition. Paperback. 120p., wrps. "Yo era una mujer casada" is a novel written by Argentine author César Aria, who is known for titles such as "La luz argentina", "El vestido rosa", "Cómo me hice monja", "La prueba", "Un episodio en..... More about Yo era una mujer casada
Barcelona: Literatura Random House, 2019. First Edition. 541p., wrps. "Diez novelas de César Aira" brings together ten novels by César Aira, which were originally printed by small or underrated publishers. The volume includes the works: "Cecil Taylor", "La costurera y el viento", "Las conversaciones", "El divorcio", "Los dos payasos", "El..... More about Diez novelas de César Aira
México, D.F. Distribuciones Fontamara, (Col. Cisne; 131.), 2010. 1st ed. Paperback. 173p., glossary. Prologue by David Apolinar Rincón Pérez. More about Los perros hambrientos
México, D.F., Barcelona: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 349p., wrps. In "Más allá del invierno", author Isabel Allende weaves a narrative that presents the human geography of characters who are in the deepest winter of their lives: a bold Chilean woman, an illegal Guatemalan girl and..... More about Más allá del invierno
Barcelona: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 382p., boards. "Largo pétalo de mar" takes place in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, when the young doctor Víctor Dalmau and his pianist friend Roser Bruguera are forced to leave Barcelona, go into exile, and cross the Pyrenees..... More about Largo pétalo de mar. Un viaje a través de la guerra civil española
Montevideo: Estuario Editora, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 168p., wrps. "El café del griego: Un estudio de la luz" is a novel that in which Vangelis, a Greek who lived a miserable childhood under Nazi occupation, opens a coffee shop in Stockholm. The shop is a place where marginalized Swedes and..... More about El café del griego: Un estudio de la luz
Montevideo: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Alfaguara (Narrativa Hispánica), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 307p., wrps. "El lugar inalcanzable" begins the morning of New Years day in 1992, in an inn in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina, where a man appears dead in the bathroom. Still drowsy after the festivities of the..... More about El lugar inalcanzable
Lima: Editorial Planeta Peru, Tusquets Editores, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 428p., boards. "Cuarteto de Lima" is an anthology of novels by Peruvian author Fernando Ampuero, including: "Caramelo verde", "Puta linda", "Hasta que me orinen los perros", and "Loreto". The works all take place in the violent atmosphere of Lima, a...... More about Cuarteto de Lima
Lima: Grupo Editorial Peisa (Serie: Del Río Hablador), 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 90p., wrps. "Lobos solitarios" is a portrait of two writers, Edmundo and Xavier, who yearn to write a masterpiece. Both are journalists and work for the same journal, yet they hardly know each other. Through reflective prose, author..... More about Lobos solitarios y otros cuentos
Montevideo: Criatura Editora, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 130p., wrps. Ricardo Ferrari has spent his life reading, but he has not been able to write more than a few stories and several articles. His encounter with a lost letter pushes him to create a narrative of reality, to think of his..... More about La carta perdida
Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 461p., wrps. "Antes de los años terribles" is a novel centering around Isaiah, whose life began again the day he arrived in Barcelona as a boy and left his old world behind. A long time has passed, and he's built a new life..... More about Antes de los años terribles
Buenos Aires: Letras del Sur Editora, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 159p., wrps. "El íntimo traidor" takes place in two towns south of Buenos Aires, centering around Ramón and Lario, two half-brothers separated in childhood and reunited many years later. The mystery of their lives involves a man imprisoned at the..... More about El íntimo traidor
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 about 1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla
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 about La zona del silencio