La isla en peso
By: Virgilio Piñera
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virgilio Pinera, one of the great Cuban poets is, along with Lezama Lima, the best representative o…
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1. Batman: The Killing Joke
By: Tim Sale , Alan Moore , Brian Bolland
4.37
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. … read more
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"How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?"-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke
"If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice."-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke
"...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?"-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. 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
4. Arturo, la estrella más brillante
By: Reinaldo Arenas
4.24
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Arturo, el hijo de La vieja Rosa, acude a un concierto y a la salida, todavía sacudido por la lluvi… read more
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5. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Poemas y antipoemas
By: Nicanor Parra
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
La publicación en 1954 de "Poemas y antipoemas" revoluciónó la poesía y la manera de poetizar en to… read more
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"el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro"-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas
"Sólo debo agregar que en aquel día Nació en mi mente la inquietud y el ansia De hacer en verso lo que en ola y ola Dios a mi vista sin cesar creaba. Desde ese entonces data la ferviente Y abrasadora …"-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas
7. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
8. Before Night Falls
By: Reinaldo Arenas , Dolores M. Koch
4.20
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as … read more
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"Cuba will be free. I already am."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
"Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales."-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
9. The Black Heralds
By: César Vallejo , Rebecca Seiferle
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout his life, Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) focused on human suffering and the isolation of peop… read more
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10. Anabasis
By: T.S. Eliot , Saint-John Perse
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This internationally famous poem by the 1960 Nobel laureate was introduced to English-language read… read more
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11. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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12. Ways of Going Home
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more
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13. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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14. Romancero gitano
By: Federico García Lorca
3.66
Format: None pages,
El "Romancero gitano" difunde el nombre de su autor por todo el ambito de la literatura de nuestra … read more
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15. I Am a Cat
By: Natsume Sōseki , Aiko Ito , Graeme Wilson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
I am a cat. As yet I have no name. So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Ja… read more
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16. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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17. The Satyricon
By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more
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18. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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19. El siglo de las luces
By: Alejo Carpentier
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
El siglo de las luces novela el impacto de la Revolucion francesa en las Antillas: los suenos de li… read more
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20. The Color of Summer: or The New Garden of Earthly Delights
By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Fa… read more
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21. 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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22. De donde son los cantantes
By: Roberto González Echevarría , Severo Sarduy
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
La escritura del cubano Severo Sarduy es provocativa, vivaz, incitante e ironica. De donde son los … read more
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23. Singing from the Well
By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. H… read more
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24. Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
El candido, picaro, aventurero y exaltado fray Servando Teresa de Mier, celebre personaje historico… read more
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25. Azul...
By: Rubén Darío , None , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
La publicacion de Azul, primer libro de un escritor nicaraguense de veintiun anos se convirtio en e… read more
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26. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
27. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
28. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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29. Olinka
By: Antonio Ortuño
3.82
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Olinka aborda la crisis de un clan empresarial de Guadalajara, capital y paraíso del lavado de dine… read more
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30. La isla en peso
By: Virgilio Piñera
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virgilio Pinera, one of the great Cuban poets is, along with Lezama Lima, the best representative o… read more
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