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AmaliaISBN 0195122771 (0-19-512277-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amalia'Book summary:Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from Rosist persecution, but before the couple and the cousin can escape to safety, they are discovered by the death squad and the young men die.
Similar in style to the romantic novels of Walter Scott, Amalia provides a detailed picture of life under a dictatorship combined with lively dialogue, drama, and a tragic love story. [via]More editions of Amalia:
Amaliaby Jose Marmol, Helen Lane , Dorris SommerISBN 0195122763 (0-19-512276-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriterby Jose Marmol, Helen Lane , Dorris SommerISBN 0374106916 (0-374-10691-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'Book summary:Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include "The Storyteller". [via]
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Cecilia Valdes: Or El Angel Hillby Cirilo Villaverde, Sibylle Brouwers-Fischer, Sibylle Fischer, Helen LaneISBN 0195143957 (0-19-514395-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cecilia Valdes: Or El Angel Hill'Book summary:Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime.
For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba. [via]More editions of Cecilia Valdes: Or El Angel Hill:
Convergences: Essays on Art and Literatureby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0151225850 (0-15-122585-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticismby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0156003651 (0-15-600365-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism'Book summary:In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.[via]More editions of The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism:
Essays on Mexican Artby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 015600061X (0-15-600061-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays on Mexican Art'Book summary:Art, philosophy, religion, and the history of the world converge as Paz celebrates the richness of Mexico in these fourteen dazzling essays. To read [this collection] is to join a passionate guide for a journey through a new world, the world of the beginning (Los Angeles Times). Sixteen pages of full-color photographs. Translated by Helen Lane.[via]More editions of Essays on Mexican Art:
A Fish in the Water: A Memoirby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0374155097 (0-374-15509-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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In Praise of the Stepmotherby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0312421303 (0-312-42130-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of the Stepmother'Book summary:Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times bestselling erotic novel. French flaps and six full-color pages of classic artworks. [via]
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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mierby Fray S. De Mier, Helen Lane , Susana RotkerISBN 0195106733 (0-19-510673-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa De Mierby Fray S. De Mier, Helen Lane , Susana RotkerISBN 0195106741 (0-19-510674-1)
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The Other Voiceby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0156704552 (0-15-670455-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Voice'Book summary:In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it modern, and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.[via]More editions of The Other Voice:
Peruvian Traditionsby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0195159098 (0-19-515909-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Republic of Dreamsby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0292770502 (0-292-77050-2)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Stone Raftby Octavio Paz, Helen LaneISBN 0156004011 (0-15-600401-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Storytellerby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0312420285 (0-312-42028-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Storyteller'Book summary:In a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle. As he stares at a picture of a tribal storyteller who holds a circle of Machiguenga Indians entranced, he is overcome by the eerie sense that he knows this man, that the storyteller is not an Indian at all, but an old school friend. [via]
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