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  • Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

    by Manuel Puig ...
    Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine ...
    Manuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies.When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig’s debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    Pinocchio, the name a variant of common "pinolo" (pine seed), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He has also been used as a character who is prone ... Read more

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  • Toro! Toro!

    Illustrated by Michael Foreman ...
    Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storytellerBest-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman.TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little ... Read more

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  • When I Was Puerto Rican

    A Memoir

    One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to HarvardIn a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Caramelo

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Every year, Celaya “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement ... Read more

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  • Woman Hollering Creek

    And Other Stories

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mr. President

    Translated by David Unger ...
    **“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine“A formidable new English translation.” ―The New Yorker“[A] masterful translation.” ―The Washington PostNobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • This Too Shall Pass

    A Novel

    Translated by Valerie Miles ...
    An irresistible, vivid, and wise story of one woman's reckoning with loss and loveBlanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like.To ease her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Adventures Of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    Out of a magical, talking piece of wood, the lonely woodcarver Geppetto carves himself a son—a mischievous puppet he names Pinocchio. Ignorant of right and wrong, Pinocchio runs away from Geppetto, and embarks on a series of increasingly fantastic misadventures, until he learns that he can become a real boy by doing good deeds.The Adventures of Pinocchio is a classic children’s story and has been ... Read more

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  • Muñeca

    **"Filled with longing and desire, Muñeca explores the true cost of freedom and the lengths we go to attain it. Cynthia Gómez's writing is utterly hypnotic; from the very beginning, she had me completely under her spell." —Monika Kim, author of Eyes are the Best PartA vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Time of Cherries

    A Novel

    Translated by Julia Sanches ...
    Series series Modern Library Torchbearers
    **Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by Colm Tóibín."An exquisite portrait of old Catalonia meeting its newer version, now nimbly translated by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Where the Air Is Clear

    My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the new, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD