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100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amorby Pablo Neruda, Stephen TapscottISBN 0292760280 (0-292-76028-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor'Book summary:If you've ever wished for a fresh and imaginative way of saying "I love you" to your beloved, peruse Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets. This intimate bilingual collection overflows with the master poet's signature sensuality and inventive imagery. Written in the 1950s for his cherished wife Matilde Urrutia, Neruda's earnest adoration leaps off the page in poem after poem: "Your heart is a clay toy shaped like a dove"; "Your kisses are clusters of fruit, fresh with dew." Thanks to translator Stephen Tapscott, Neruda's dreamy images carry over vividly from the Spanish and dance in the mind for days after they're read.
Neruda pays only loose tribute to the sonnet by employing a 14-line structure for each poem. As he says, his sonnets are made of wood, rather than the "silver, or crystal, or cannonfire" of a more refined sonnet. Neruda's humility is apparent as he refers again and again to the natural landscape of Isla Negra (the Pacific island where he and his wife lived) to describe his simple dedication to Matilde: "...I am like a scorched rock / that suddenly sings when you are near, because it drinks / the water you carry from the forest, in your voice."
Journeying from the erotic celebration of the body to the spiritual depths of eternal union, 100 Love Sonnets shows why "two happy lovers make one bread" and "waking, they leave one sun empty in their bed." [via]
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1968: The Year That Rocked The Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345455827 (0-345-45582-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1968: The Year That Rocked The World'Book summary:Given its broad and vibrant subject, it would be quite difficult for a writer of any proficiency to pen a boring book on 1968, and Mark Kurlansky has indeed pulled together an entertaining and enlightening popular history with 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. With the Vietnam War and Soviet repression providing sparkplugs in the East and West, student movements heated up in Berkeley, Prague, Mexico City, Paris, and dozens of other hotspots. With youth in ascendancy, music, film, and athletics became generational battlegrounds between opposition forces that couldn't be more appalled with one another. Not so fortuitously, the Summer Olympics in Mexico City and a presidential election in the United States conspired to elevate the tension higher as months passed. Kurlansky is skilled at concisely capturing the personalities behind the conflicts, whether they be heartbroken Czech leader Alexander Dubcek as Eastern Bloc troops violently suppress his nation's uprising or respected veteran newsman Walter Cronkite reluctantly editorializing against the war in Vietnam. The author is more than willing to choose heroes (the doomed Robert Kennedy) and villains (victorious presidential candidate Richard Nixon), and clearly sides with the rebels in most cases. In general, Kurlansky is more adept at covering the political front than he is the equally revolutionary arts world, and it's apparent that any chapter in this book could be expanded into a book of its own. One's expectation is that captivated readers will view 1968 as a portal into a deeper exploration of a fascinating time. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000by George Reid AndrewsISBN 0195152336 (0-19-515233-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000'Book summary:While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States.
In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues.
Spanning two centuries, this tour de force should be read by anyone interested in Latin American history, the history of slavery, and the African diaspora, as well as the future of Latin America. [via]More editions of Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000:
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The Aleph and Other Storiesby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850by Lester D. LangleyISBN 0300077262 (0-300-07726-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850'Book summary:Within half a century, three European empires fell to American movements for independence. In this innovative and sophisticated account of comparative history, Lester D. Langley considers the revolutions in the American colonies, Saint Domingue (later Haiti), and the "Iberoamerican" independence movements in South America. He compares class leadership, racial factors, and the relative violence of each movement. His study alters the typical framework for analyzing American independence as he considers revolution from a dynamic or systemic perspective. Eschewing questions of causation such as "Why did the revolutions occur?" or "What did they achieve?" he explores instead the importance of place and location as well as what the revolts brought in terms of industrialization, militarization, and material progress. Professor Langley's arguments are based in an intriguing understanding of chaos theory, which he applies to the interpretation of historical experience in order to draw out the roles of probability and randomness as constraints on and conditions for the various revolutionary movements. [via]
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Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980by Dawn AdesISBN 0300045611 (0-300-04561-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Birds without a Nest: A Novelby Clorinda Matto de Turner, Naomi Lindstrom, J. G. H.ISBN 0292751958 (0-292-75195-8)
Softcover, University of Texas Press
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Birds without a Nestby Clorinda Matto De Turner, J. G. Hudson, Naomi Lindstrom, J. G. H.ISBN 029275194X (0-292-75194-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Black Oxenby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0312420498 (0-312-42049-8)
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The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Peter Sis, Andrew HurleyISBN 0143039938 (0-14-303993-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Of Imaginary Beings'Book summary:In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.[via]More editions of The Book Of Imaginary Beings:
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Serviceby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0224016245 (0-224-01624-5)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Pantoja and the Special Service'Book summary:[via]This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Perus Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the armyto provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wildernessby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140255079 (0-14-025507-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Colonial Latin Americaby Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. JohnsonISBN 0195320425 (0-19-532042-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonial Latin America'Book summary:In this lively and very readable history, two eminent historians provide a concise yet comprehensive study of the Iberian colonies in the New World from the pre-conquest background through European exploration, conquest, and colonization, to the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Colonial Latin America examines the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas, and analyzes demographic change, labor systems, the colonial economies, and trade, while featuring a unique study of society, family, and daily life in the region. After a special section that provides a thorough treatment of the final century of colonial rule, the authors, in a concluding chapter, discuss independence, the colonial legacy, and the myriad problems that faced the newly formed nations. Numerous photographs and maps lend immediacy to the narrative, and biographical examples of both conquerer and conquered illustrate colonial life. Written in clear and engaging prose, this extremely well-balanced book is an accessible and invaluable aid for readers who want to learn about Latin America's colonial legacy and difficult transition into the modern era. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Colonial Latin America: ISBN 0195105362 (0-19-510536-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Colonial Latin America: ISBN 0195137027 (0-19-513702-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Colonial Latin America: ISBN 0195156854 (0-19-515685-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Colonial Latin America: ISBN 0195080882 (0-19-508088-2)
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Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850by Richard Boyer, Geoffrey SpurlingISBN 0195125126 (0-19-512512-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. Classic Graham Greene. [via]
The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Doradoby Charles NichollISBN 0226580253 (0-226-58025-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--The Catholic Church in Conflict With U.S. Policyby Penny LernouxISBN 0140060472 (0-14-006047-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Cuba: A New Historyby Richard GottISBN 0300111142 (0-300-11114-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Democracy In Latin America: Political Change In Comparative Persprctiveby Peter H. SmithISBN 0195157591 (0-19-515759-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dom Casmurroby Joaquim Maria MacHado De Assis, John A. GledsonISBN 0195103092 (0-19-510309-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dom Casmurroby John A. Gledson, MacHado De AssisISBN 0195103084 (0-19-510308-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dom Casmurro'Book summary:The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.
Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work. [via]
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Dom Casmurroby R.L. Scott-Buccleuch, MacHado De AssisISBN 0140446125 (0-14-044612-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dreamtigersby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0292715498 (0-292-71549-8)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreamtigers'Book summary:Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler--albeit a dazzling one--of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation.
Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the "enveloping serenity " of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past -- Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: "It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."
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Facundoby Domingof Sarmiento, Ilan Stavans, Mary Tyler Peabody MannISBN 0140436774 (0-14-043677-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches With Connecting Narrative Drawn from the Life of the Admiral by His Son Hernando Colon and Otherby Christopher Columbus, J.M. CohenISBN 0140442170 (0-14-044217-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge Amado, James L. Taylor, William L. GrossmanISBN 0307276651 (0-307-27665-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all Gabriela herselfwill be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?
Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life. [via]More editions of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon:
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Guevara, Also Known As Cheby Paco Ignacio TaiboISBN 0312155395 (0-312-15539-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guevara, Also Known As Che'Book summary:Taibo, whose extensive contacts within Latin American political activism have given him unprecedented access to hitherto untapped sources, probes Che Guevara's life with a storyteller's pen and an historian's judgment, investigating the mystery and myth surrounding Che's life, careers, and ideals. [via]
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Guevara, Also Known as Cheby Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, Martin RobertsISBN 0312206526 (0-312-20652-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in Americaby Juan GonzalezISBN 0140255397 (0-14-025539-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journeyby Ariel DorfmanISBN 014028253X (0-14-028253-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey'Book summary:Ariel Dorfman is no stranger to exile. Before his 30th birthday, he had fled with his parents (Jews who had escaped from Eastern Europe) from Argentina to the U.S. and then later to Chile. Then, following a military coup, he fled Chile for a stint in Europe before returning to the U.S. For Dorfman, this was not traveling but enduring, as his forced movement between nations, cultures, and languages left him without a place to call home or a culture he could completely define as his own. Although heralded as one of Latin America's leading writers, he once renounced the Spanish language and swore to become an American in both speech and culture. Later, while a student at Berkeley, he abandoned English with the same vengeance and returned to his native Spanish. Such vacillation caused him to ponder the role of language in forming identity, and this theme runs throughout Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. His desire to embrace his Latin roots went beyond language, however, for it was politics that ultimately thrust him into the role of a writer, thus changing his life. He had wanted to be a part of the American protest movement, but he feared the official wrath that could befall him due to his immigrant status: "This seemed to be my fate. In Chile, I had been Argentinean; here, I was Chilean; always the danger of deportation, my foreign passport weighing down on me. So I looked on while heads were broken, sit-ins were disrupted, and damsels in distress were dragged off by the 'pigs.' ... My participation was always surreptitious and oblique...." But in Chile his involvement took a more active stance. His status as official citizen emboldened him and he enthusiastically embraced Salvador Allende's socialist movement, serving for a time as the administration's communications and media advisor; a choice that eventually earned him yet another round of exile back in the U.S. (where he continues to reside) after the death of Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. A remarkable story of perseverance and the inherent power of language, Heading South, Looking North is ultimately a quest for self-identity. The fact that he wrote this book in English may answer the question of where he stands--for now. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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A History of Brazilby E. Bradford BurnsISBN 0231079559 (0-231-07955-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Honorary Consulby Graham GreeneISBN 0370014863 (0-370-01486-3)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novelby Luis Alberto UrreaISBN 0316154520 (0-316-15452-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin Americaby Kay B. Warren, Jean E. JacksonISBN 0292791410 (0-292-79141-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Insurgent Mexicoby John ReedISBN 0140068813 (0-14-006881-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolutionby Donald C. HodgesISBN 0292738439 (0-292-73843-9)
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The Invention of Morel and Other Stories, from LA Trama Celesteby Adolfo Bioy CasaresISBN 0292738404 (0-292-73840-4)
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Isla Negra: A Notebookby Pablo Neruda, Alastair ReidISBN 0374177597 (0-374-17759-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Kingdom of This Worldby Alejo CarpentierISBN 0233986170 (0-233-98617-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingdom of This World'Book summary:A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurpassed brutality, horror, and superstition under the reign of the black King Henri-Christophe. Through the eyes of the ancient slave Ti-Noel, The Kingdom of This World records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, erotomania, and fantastic grandeurs of false elegance.[via]More editions of The Kingdom of This World:
La Hojarasca/dead Leavesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350479 (0-307-35047-9)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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LA Invencion De Morelby Adolfo Bioy CasaresISBN 0140260846 (0-14-026084-6)
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Latinoamerica: Presente Y Pasadoby Arturo A. FoxISBN 013060903X (0-13-060903-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Letters from Mexicoby Hernan Cortes, Anthony PagdenISBN 0300090943 (0-300-09094-3)
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Tortureby Marguerite FeitlowitzISBN 0195134168 (0-19-513416-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture'Book summary:Argentina still struggles as a nation with the shame and horror of the so-called "dirty-war" of the decade following Juan Peron's death. During that horrific time, torture and kidnapping were the instruments of choice for the enforcement of political will. Feitlowitz unflinchingly examines life under sadistic military rule with detailed descriptions of the experiences of prisoners in concentration camps. The Argentinean vocabulary now includes words like desaparacido (disappeared person) and chupado (sucked up or kidnapped), vivid reminders of how commonplace kidnapping and murder became. Victims, often guilty only of nothing more than practicing psychology or journalism or being Jewish, have not been forgotten.
Though Feitlowitz touches on the linguistic effects of government terrorism in Argentina, her book's greatest strength lies in the voice it gives the victims. The author spent years talking to survivors of the terror as well as some of the people responsible for instigating it. What A Lexicon of Terror does particularly well is capture the ongoing consequences of the dirty war--victims encountering their tormentors on the streets, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo still marching to remind their government that the fates of thousands of disappeared are still not known, a government held hostage by the fear of army uprisings should any attempt to bring culprits to justice be made. Argentina is the subject of this particular Lexicon, but surely the citizens of other nations such as Chile, Guatemala, and El Salvador might see their own experiences mirrored here. [via]
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Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens and Machosby Annick PrieurISBN 0226682579 (0-226-68257-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Memoirsby Pablo NerudaISBN 014018628X (0-14-018628-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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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 Helen R. Lane, Susana Rotker, Teresa De MierISBN 0195106741 (0-19-510674-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturersby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 0226893944 (0-226-89394-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturers'Book summary:During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the worldfrom South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosniahas been what to do about the still-toxic security apparatuses left over from the previous regime. In this now-classic and profoundly influential study, the New Yorker's Lawrence Weschler probes these dilemmas across two gripping narratives (set in Brazil and Uruguay, among the first places to face such concerns), true-life thrillers in which torture victims, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, themselves band together to settle accounts with their former tormentors.[via]
"Disturbing and often enthralling."New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinarily moving. . . . Weschler writes brilliantly."Newsday
"Implausible, intricate and dazzling."Times Literary Supplement
"As Weschler's interviewees told their tales, I paced agitatedly, choked back tears. . . . Weschler narrates these two episodes with skill and tact. . . . An inspiring book."George Scialabba, Los Angeles WeeklyMore editions of A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturers:
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:"The Mosquito Coast" - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful". (Victoria Glendinning, "Sunday Times"). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror". (Christopher Wordsworth, "Guardian"). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting". (Anthony Burgess). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin. [via]
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guideby Louise H. Emmons, Francois FeerISBN 0226207188 (0-226-20718-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracyby Julia Preston, Samuel DillonISBN 0374226687 (0-374-22668-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Storiesby Roberto Gonzalez EchevarriaISBN 0195130855 (0-19-513085-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories'Book summary:The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Edited by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical. In fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in the English-speaking world. The short story has been a central part of this tradition, from Fray Bartolome de las Casas' narrative protests against the Spanish Conquistadors' abuses of Indians, to the world renowned Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges, to the contemporary works of such masters as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rosario Ferre, and others.
Now, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. In his fascinating introduction, Gonzalez Echevarria traces the evolution of the short story in Latin American literature, explaining why the genre has flourished there with such brilliance, and illuminating the various cultural and literary tensions that resolve themselves in "magical realism." The stories themselves exhibit all the inventiveness, the luxuriousness of language, the wild metaphoric leaps and uncanny conjunctions of the ordinary with the fantastic that have given the Latin American short story its distinctive and unforgettable flavor: From the Joycean subtlety of Machado de Assis's "Midnight Mass," to the brutal parable of Julio Ramon Ribeyro's "Featherless Buzzards," to the startling disorientation of Alejo Carpentier's "Journey Back to the Source," (which is told backwards, because a sorcerer has waved his wand and made time flow in reverse), to the haunting reveries of Maria Luisa Bombal's "The Tree." Readers familiar with only the most popular Latin American writers will be delighted to discover many exciting new voices here, including Catalina de Erauso, Ricardo Palma, Rubin Dario, Augusto Roa Bastos, Christina Peri Rossi, along with Borges, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and many others. Gonzalez Echevarria also provides brief and extremely helpful headnotes for the each selection, discussing the author's influences, major works, and central themes.
Short story lovers will find a wealth of satisfactions here, in terrains both familiar and uncharted. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world. [via]More editions of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories:
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Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 0246639873 (0-246-63987-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papillon'Book summary:Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.
Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
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Radicals Reformers and Reactionaries: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin Americaby Youssef CohenISBN 0226112721 (0-226-11272-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Real Lifeby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0374247773 (0-374-24777-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Real Life of Alejandro Maytaby Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfred Mac AdamISBN 0374247765 (0-374-24776-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Revolution in the Third Worldby Gerard Chaliand, Diana JohnstoneISBN 0140118454 (0-14-011845-4)
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Rural Guerillas in Latin Americaby Richard GottISBN 0140216383 (0-14-021638-3)
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A Saint Is Born in Chinaby Manual Zapata OlivellaISBN 0292776446 (0-292-77644-6)
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Societyby Leo Ralph ChavezISBN 015508089X (0-15-508089-X)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin Americaby David Collier, Ruth Berins CollierISBN 0268017727 (0-268-01772-7)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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The Silence of the Rainby Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Benjamin MoserISBN 0312421184 (0-312-42118-4)
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The Spanish Seaborne Empireby John Horace ParryISBN 0140216464 (0-14-021646-4)
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Yanomamoby Napoleon A. ChagnonISBN 0155053272 (0-15-505327-2)
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La Hojarasca/dead Leavesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350355 (0-307-35035-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
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Latinoamerica: Presente Y Pasadoby Arturo A. FoxISBN 0130169404 (0-13-016940-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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