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El Pez en el Agua = Fish in the Water (Narrativa)
El Pez en el Agua = Fish in the Water (Narrativa)
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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This work by the renowned Peruvian author allows us to glimpse into the key years of his youth until his candidacy for President of Peru. These are stark, unadorned truths revealed through his hypnotic and masterly prose. The strained relationship... (read more)

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Enrique Gomez Carrillo, El Cronista Errante / Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the Wandering Columnist
Enrique Gomez Carrillo, El Cronista Errante / Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the Wandering Columnist
by Edelberto Torres Espinoza
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Explores the international bohemian life of one of Guatemala's noted modernist literary figures, who was a major figure within the self-exiled Parisian-based literati community and who was buried in the famous Parisian Pre Lachaise Cemetery in 1927.... (read more)

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Lealtad y Traicion
Lealtad y Traicion
by Franziska Augstein
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Son of a Republican family of gentry, Jorge Semprun was born in Madrid in 1923. By then, in Europe, Hitler had failed his first attempt at control, Lenin was at the gates of death, in the Soviet Union the first labor camp was organized, and Spain started... (read more)

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Los Cuadernos Secretos de Agatha Christie y DOS Novelas Ineditas de Poirot (Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
Los Cuadernos Secretos de Agatha Christie y DOS Novelas Ineditas de Poirot (Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran
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Following the death of Agatha Christie's daughter at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was unearthed at the family home. Agatha's private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many... (read more)

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Gabriel Garc
Gabriel Garc
by Gerald Martin
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La primera biografía completa y autorizada sobre el más querido y admirado escritor latinoamericano Gerald Martin dedicó más de dos décadas a investigar y escribir esta magistral biografía. Pasó horas con Gabriel Garc... (read more)

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Vidas y Muertes de Luis Mart-N-Santos
Vidas y Muertes de Luis Mart-N-Santos
by Jose Lazaro
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The life and personality of the writer and psychiatrist Luis Martn-Santos (1924-1964) remains virtually unknown, despite the enormous scholarly literature devoted to analysis of time of silence, the extraordinary novel that he published in 1962 and was... (read more)

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Coleccion Andanzas #722: De Que Hablo Cuando Hablo De Correr
Coleccion Andanzas #722: De Que Hablo Cuando Hablo De Correr
by Haruki Murakami
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While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories and... (read more)

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Correr El Tupido Velo (Drawing Back to Dense Veil)
Correr El Tupido Velo (Drawing Back to Dense Veil)
by Pilar Donoso
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Mario Vargas Llosa found this biography to be: A revealing book on the life of Donoso and what lies behind his work. It is also a biography of his family, based upon the private diaries that he and his wife each wrote throughout their long married life... (read more)

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de Alemania A Alemania: Diario, 1990 = On the Road from Germany to Germany
de Alemania A Alemania: Diario, 1990 = On the Road from Germany to Germany
by Gunter Grass
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Over twenty years ago, Gunter Grass' editor gave the Nobel laureate a series of notebooks to fill with drafts for future works. Grass began writing a diary in these notebooks, using them as fertile ground for his ideas, a practice he has kept to this... (read more)

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Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa
by Paco Ignacio Taibo, Ii
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A biography of the Mexican outlaw turned revolutionary leader explores his life and accomplishments, and attempts to discover the truth behind the many legends associated with his name.... (read more)

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Las Palabras Que Curan (Plataforma Testimonio)
Las Palabras Que Curan (Plataforma Testimonio)
by Alex Rovira
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A comprehensible mosaic of pearls of wisdom that decipher the world, this book offers words of wisdom, beauty, and humanity, snippets from great texts that were all well-chosen and masterfully organized. Un mosaico comprensible de perlas de sabidur... (read more)

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Antes Que Anochezca
Antes Que Anochezca
by Reinaldo Arenas
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This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to... (read more)

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Una Vida de Novela (a Fairytale Life)
Una Vida de Novela (a Fairytale Life)
by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
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This book commemorates the work of the Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique. It includes writings on Bryce Echenique and his work by Luis Garcia Montero, Almudena Grandes, Alonso Cueto, critic Julio Ortega, and publisher Chus Visor, among other... (read more)

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Recuerdos De Una Mujer De La Generacion (98 Edition)
Recuerdos De Una Mujer De La Generacion (98 Edition)
by Nessi
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Carmen Baroja, who was brought up according to the Spanish tradition, and who, according to her writings, did not begin to enjoy life until her old age, developed a great artistic activity (gold work) and investigated folklore which no one, not even she,... (read more)

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Literatura Espanola (Capilla Alfonsina)
Literatura Espanola (Capilla Alfonsina)
by Alfonso Reyes
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Milagros De Vida / Miracles of Life
Milagros De Vida / Miracles of Life
by J. G. Ballard
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Sabato,
Sabato,
by Julia J. Constenla
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Jose Saramago (Jose Saramago): La Consistencia de Los Suenos (the Consistency of Dreams)
Jose Saramago (Jose Saramago): La Consistencia de Los Suenos (the Consistency of Dreams)
by Fernando Gomez Aguilera
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Puig Por Puig / Puig for Puig
Puig Por Puig / Puig for Puig
by Julia Romero
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Tiempo de Memoria #68/2: Luis Cernuda Anos del Exilio (1938-1963)
Tiempo de Memoria #68/2: Luis Cernuda Anos del Exilio (1938-1963)
by Antonio Rivero Taravillo
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