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  • Mexico City

    Cradle of Empires

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series series
    Mexico City has always been a seat of empire. In its grandiose pretentions and sheer swagger, it gives the impression of power exercised over great distances. And yet this power has frequently been contested, lending the city a tough, battle-hardened look. At the same time, life in the Mexican capital can be carefree and intoxicating, and it continues to offer any visitor not only glimpses of past ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Buenos Aires

    Innercities Cultural Guides

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 2 - Innercities: Cultural Guides
    Nick Caistor has lived for several years in Buenos Aires as well as visiting it often over the past three decades. He has reported on Argentina for the BBC and is a translator as well as the author of several books on Latin America. The architect Le Corbusier once called Buenos Aires the capital of an imaginary empire . From its foundation in the sixteenth century, Argentina's main city has been a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bearing Witness

    Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism

    ‘Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of Franco’—Paul Preston, historian and author of Architects of Terror‘A humane, vivid and painfully honest testimony of incarceration under two fascist systems that flares up an urgent signal in our moment of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Octavio Paz

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 12 - Critical Lives
    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Fidel Castro

    by Nick Caistor ...
    Series Book 47 - Critical Lives
    The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel. By contrast, Nick Caistor brings together personal details and a discussion of the ideas driving Castro throughout his life; his ultimate ... Read more

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  • A Legend of the Future

    DescriptionA canonical, riveting work from the patron saint of Cuban science fiction that is reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odysseyand now available to an English readership for the first time.A morally profound chamber piece, Agustín de Rojas’ A Legend of the Future takes place inside a damaged spaceship following the failure of a mission to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hare

    by César Aira ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    When a Mapuche chief suddenly goes missing, a British naturalist is asked to find him in the vast Argentine pampasClarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare, whose defining quality seems to be its ability to fly. The local Indians, pointing skyward, report recent sightings of the hare but then ask Clarke to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Things We Don't Do

    Translated by Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia ...
    Mind-bending set of stories—the first of Neuman's in English—calls to mind the best of Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Ulysses

    by Julian Rios ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    Julián Ríos's The House of Ulysses is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture on the great, often imposing, cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses**.**Some say every book is born out of an earlier book. Just as James Joyce's novel unraveled Homer scene by scene, Julián Ríos's The House of Ulysses returns the favor, giving us the story of several bickering chara... ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Last Evenings with Teresa

    A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025

    by Juan Marsé ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers'New York Times'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' GuardianA REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS.1950s Barcelona. A rebellious daughter of a wealthy family meets an ambitious rogue at a party.Teresa was born with every advantage in life - beautiful, rich, charming and clever. Another left-wing university student... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • An Englishman in Madrid

    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war.The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita ... Read more

    $2.99 USD