Forgotten Journey
By: Silvina Ocampo
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family …
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1. Árbol de Diana
By: Alejandra Pizarnik
4.29
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Prologado por Octavio Paz, esta obra supuso el reconocimiento definitivo de la autora por parte de … read more
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- poetry
- latin american
"La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos."-Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana
"Explicar con palabras de este mundo que partió de mí un barco llevándome."-Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana
"«Extraño desacostumbrarme de la hora en que nací. Extraño no ejercer más oficio de recién llegada.»"-Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana
"Una mirada desde la alcantarilla puede ser una visión del mundo, la rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos."-Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana
2. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more
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"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
3. La última inocencia
By: Alejandra Pizarnik
4.14
Format: 157 pages,
Alejandra Pizarnik a vingt ans lorsqu’elle publie en 1956, à Buenos Aires, son deuxième livre de po… read more
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- poetry
4. The Death of Artemio Cruz
By: Carlos Fuentes , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes'… read more
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- magical realism
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
"Nunca escucharás las palabras de los otros. Tendrás que vivirlas."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"Vivir es traicionar a tu Dios; cada acto de la vida, cada acto que nos afirma como seres vivos, exige que se violen los mandamientos de tu Dios"-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"¿A poco no somos los meros chingones? ¿Sabes? Escoge siempre a tus amigos entre los grandes chingones, porque con ellos no hay quien te chingue a ti."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
5. How I Became a Nun
By: César Aira , Chris Andrews
3.69
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
"I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs..."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
6. Las primas
By: Aurora Venturini
3.91
Format: None pages, pocket
Cuatro mujeres orbitando eternamente en el vacio. La premiadisima primera novela de la octogenaria … read more
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- spanish literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
7. Los arboles caídos también son el bosque
By: Alejandra Kamiya
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
La estructura de estos cuentos es una cuidada cadena de precision: nada de lo que la autora escribe… read more
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- spanish literature
- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
8. Éste es el mar
By: Mariana Enríquez
2.90
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Ritos de pasaje, adolescentes fanatizadas con estrellas de rock, inframundos donde conviven seres q… read more
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- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
9. El porvenir de mi pasado
By: Mario Benedetti
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Tengan cuidado: en las paginas de este libro habitan inquietos fantasmas, se disparan revolveres y … read more
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10. House of Incest
By: Anaïs Nin , None
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The genesis of House of Incestwas in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of tha… read more
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11. La débil mental
By: Ariana Harwicz
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Escrita como un flujo de conciencia que recuerda a la mejor literatura moderna -Virgina Woolf, Nath… read more
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12. Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
By: Horacio Quiroga
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Constituye la obra cumbre del autor, en las breves y apasionantes historias que componen el libro, … read more
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13. Bajar es lo peor
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Bajar es lo peor, la primera novela de Mariana Enriquez, publicada en 1995, de reciente reaparición… read more
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- spanish literature
- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
14. Portrait of an Unknown Lady
By: María Gainza
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with her debut Optic Nerve, returns… read more
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- spanish literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work."-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady
"Pero la realidad es más extraña que la ficción y más difusa también, y ahora que lo pienso no existe droga que pueda inducir una fantasía igual en tantos individuos diferentes. Todas las ramas de la …"-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady
"No esperen nombres, estadísticas, fechas. Lo sólido se me escapa, solo queda entre mis dedos una atmósfera imprecisa, técnicamente soy una impresionista de la vieja escuela. Además, todos estos años …"-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady
"Poseía «el ojo de halcón» que en el mundo del arte, como «el ojo clínico» en medicina, es un talento en extinción. Ella podía ver a través de una pintura, podía entender su matriz. Tenía un don innat…"-María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady
15. El corazón del daño
By: María Negroni
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Recopilación privada; ajuste de cuentas con una madre desesperada y desesperante; desmontaje de una… read more
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- spanish literature
- poetry
- fiction
"O la vida es un viaje hacia la nada y la escritura un atajo."-María Negroni, El corazón del daño
16. Las voladoras
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Mónica Ojeda se ha convertido en una de las voces más exitosas y leídas de la nueva generación lite… read more
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- spanish literature
- short stories
- latin american
- fiction
"Cuando uno está arriba piensa que ver bien será difícil, pero no es verdad. Ves nítidamente lo que eres y lo que son los otros, que abajo todo es pequeño y miserable y que de allí provienes. Ese es e…"-Mónica Ojeda, Las voladoras
17. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
18. Sacrificios humanos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoa… read more
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- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
19. Huiswerk
By: Marja Pruis
3.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Clara Feij is in het mooiste huis van Amsterdam komen wonen, vindt ze zelf. Schoonmaken laat ze ove… read more
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- fiction
20. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
21. La paciencia del agua sobre cada piedra
By: Alejandra Kamiya
4.04
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
Toda la oscuridad del mundo cabe en una habitación pequeña. Porque la oscuridad no deja intersticio… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"«nada tiene más formas que Dios»"-Alejandra Kamiya, La paciencia del agua sobre cada piedra
22. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo
By: Mariana Enríquez
4.27
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas d… read more
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- literature
- spanish literature
- latin american
24. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
By: Bernardo Esquinca
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
25. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
26. Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection … read more
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- short story collection
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
27. La comemadre
By: Roque Larraquy
3.67
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La comemadre ofrece dos relatos que hunden sus raíces en la misma materia y abrevan en las mismas o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Papini's speech accelerates as he walks toward the morgue, leaving a trail of lemon in his wake. 'It's the so-called qualitative leap, Quintana. At night we come up with daring plans that would chang…"-Roque Larraquy, La comemadre
28. Forgotten Journey
By: Silvina Ocampo
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family … read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- short story collection
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
- surreal
29. New and Selected Stories
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza’s remarkable career, and this book is… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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30. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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- magical realism
- spanish literature
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
31. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
