Life Itself
By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
3.72
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna an…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Las batallas en el desierto
By: José Emilio Pacheco
4.13
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more
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"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
3. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
4. Here's to You, Jesusa!
By: Elena Poniatowska , Deanna Heikkinen
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned s… read more
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5. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
By: Jorge Amado , Harriet de Onís
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for nev… read more
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6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
7. To Each His Own
By: Leonardo Sciascia , Adrienne Foulke , W.S. Di Piero
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno t… read more
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8. Il visconte dimezzato
By: Italo Calvino
3.82
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more
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"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
9. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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- fiction
10. La bella estate
By: Cesare Pavese
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more
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11. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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12. Strangers
By: Taichi Yamada , None
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more
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13. Storia di una lumaca che scoprì l'importanza della lentezza
By: Luis Sepúlveda , Ilide Carmignani
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Le lumache che vivono nel prato chiamato Paese del Dente di Leone, sotto la frondosa pianta del cal… read more
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14. El túnel
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more
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15. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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16. Havana Red (Mario Conde, #3)
By: Leonardo Padura , Peter Bush
1.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters."--Magazine Littera… read more
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17. La ciudad y los perros
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more
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19. Silk
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more
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20. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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21. La tabla de Flandes
By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
3.79
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
A finales del siglo XV un viejo maestro de la pintura flamenca introduce en uno de sus cuadros una … read more
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"Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not."-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes
"You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations."-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes
"There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them."-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes
"It's odd how, against all logic, one clings to life in inverse proportion to the quantity of life one has left to look forward to."-Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La tabla de Flandes
22. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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23. Falsa liebre
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
La oscuridad del puerto lo envuelve todo. Pachi y Vinicio se adentran en la playa, van camino a una… read more
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"El dolor abrasaba su pecho; apenas podía respirar. Los ojos se le llenaron de lágrimas y eso lo avergonzó. Le hubiera gustado no tenerlos, no tener rostro, no tener cuerpo; ser invisible para la gent…"-Fernanda Melchor, Falsa liebre
"El truco era mantener los ojos abiertos, la mirada fija, no pestañear, no pensar en nada, especialmente eso: no pensar en el dolor, no pensar en el significado de las palabras. Contenerlo todo en la …"-Fernanda Melchor, Falsa liebre
24. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
25. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
3.97
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more
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"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)
26. Salvar el fuego
By: Guillermo Arriaga
4.30
Format: 664 pages, Paperback
Una historia de violencia en el México contemporáneo donde el amor y la redención aún son posibles.… read more
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27. A veces despierto temblando
By: Ximena Santaolalla
4.49
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Dos kaibiles son enviados a un entrenamiento militar élite en Texas. Los adiestran para abatir el c… read more
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28. Todo lo que no me deja olvidarte
By: Alberto Villarreal
3.99
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Para Édgar, las cicatrices del pasado siguen latiendo con fuerza. A pesar de los años y de que ahor… read more
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29. Life Itself
By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
3.72
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna an… read more
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30. Francisco J. Múgica. El presidente que no tuvimos
By: Anna Ribera Carbo
4.50
Format: 239 pages, Pocket Book
Francisco J. Múgica. El presidente que no tuvimos es el recuento de la vida de un político y milita… read more
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31. Historia mínima de México
By: Daniel Cosío Villegas
3.74
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
En estas páginas están registrados los pasos que han dejado huella en la historia de México. Los pa… read more
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