Masterpieces of Latino Literature
Title | Masterpieces of Latino Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Northen Magill |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | 680 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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A critical summary of some of the most noted works of Latino literature offers explanation and evaluation of writings by Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Carlos Casteneda, and others.
Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Angel Flores |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780023383205 |
Masterpieces of Latin Literature
Title | Masterpieces of Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Jennings Laing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | English literature |
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Dark Back of Time
Title | Dark Back of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Javier Marías |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307951057 |
From one of Spain's greatest writers—and the international bestselling, award-winning author of The Infatuations—comes an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time that weaves together fact and fiction into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. "Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose is ambitious, ironic, philosophical, and ultimately compassionate." —The New York Times Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"—the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have "recognized themselves"—fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed," Dark Back of Time begins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Title | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Alvarez |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2010-01-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616200987 |
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told." —The Washington Post Book World
Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: The colonial period to the beginnings of modernism
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: The colonial period to the beginnings of modernism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 440 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
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Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: Modernism to the present
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: Modernism to the present PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
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