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  • The Mystery of Rio

    by Alberto Mussa ...
    A murder at a Brazilian brothel leads to a bizarre competition between a forensic expert and a potential suspect in this enigmatic historical mystery.Reminiscent of the fiction of Latin American greats Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, The Mystery of Rio is a finely wrought novel that will transport readers into a thrilling literary hall of mirrors where they might find themselves reflected at ... Read more

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  • Zama

    Translated by Esther Allen ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalFirst published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature.Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Horizontal Vertigo

    A City Called Mexico

    by Juan Villoro ...
    Translated by Alfred MacAdam ...
    At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Motorcycle Diaries

    Notes on a Latin American Journey

    Series series The Che Guevara Library
    A New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures ... Read more

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  • Destiny and Desire

    A Novel

    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Winner of the Cervantes PrizeCarlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods.Josué Nadal has lost more than his innocence: He has been robbed of his life—and his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Hold Life Has

    Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

    This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Lieutenant Nun

    Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

    One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pablo Escobar: The History of the Biggest Narco

    by myebook ...
    Pablo EscobarMurderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just a bloodthirsty gangster, a Bogie Man used to scare children in their beds; for the ... Read more

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  • The Scroll of Seduction

    A Novel

    Manuel is a man of many talents; an art historian and professor, he is also an exquisite storyteller. When he meets 16-year-old Lucía on an outing from her boarding school, he offers to narrate a story of dire consequences—that of the Spanish Queen Juana of Castile and her legendary love for her husband, Philippe the Handsome.Promised to Prince Philippe the Handsome to solidify ties between the ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

    A Novel

    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    A Nobel Prize winner's captivating novel of reality, fantasy, and sensualitySet in Lima, Notebooks of Don Rigoberto tells a love story whose participants may be the fictional characters of Don Rigoberto himself. With his signature wit and playfulness, Mario Vargas Llosa masterfully blurs the lines between reality and imagination, crafting a novel that is at once sexy, humorous, thought-provoking, ... Read more

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  • The Eagle's Throne

    A Novel

    Translated by Kristina Cordero ...
    Here is a true literary event–the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle’s Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous betrayal.In the near future, at a meeting of the ... Read more

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  • The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

    Series series Vintage International
    This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once ... Read more

    $14.99 USD