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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • Family of Pascual Duarte

    Translated by Anthony Kerrigan ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie.The Family of Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province of Extremadura to his ... Read more

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  • I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    A Novel

    by Irene Solà ...
    Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are ... Read more

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  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (Illustrated)

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    An universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture.The Adventures of Pinocchio , also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, ... Read more

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  • Raised from the Ground

    A Novel

    A family of Portuguese farmers struggle to survive as world events pass them by in "a novel that resounds with relevance for our own time" ( New York Times Book Review).Winner of the City of Lisbon PrizeCelebrated author Jose Saramago has delighted readers around the world with his imaginative tales and evocative depictions of life in his native Portugal. His novel Raised from the Ground follows ... Read more

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  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

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  • Small Memories

    A Memoir

    The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness recalls the days of his youth in Lisbon and the Portuguese countryside in this charming memoir.José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate ... Read more

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  • The Underdogs

    A Novel of the Mexican Revolution

    Translated by E Munguia Jr. ...
    Originally published in serialized form in a border-town newspaper, Mariano Azuela's The Underdogs is a gripping tale that recounts the personal and political havoc that surrounded the Mexican Revolution. Equal parts action-packed war novel and philosophical meditation on the costs of conflict, The Underdogs is a must-read for fans of historical fiction or Hispanic literature buffs. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Quest

    Preamble – Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper – A Balcony Is Heard Closing – A Cricket Chirps. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    Illustrated by Minalima ...
    The classic children's tale about a little wooden boy, now in a full-color deluxe edition, packed with beautiful artwork and interactive features.Originally published in 1883, The Adventures of Pinocchio is one of the best known and beloved children's classics. Written by Italian political satirist Carlo Collodi, it is the story of Geppetto, a poor puppeteer who uses an enchanted piece of wood to ... Read more

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  • The Vortex

    A Novel

    Translated by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he ... Read more

    $19.49 USD