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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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House of the Fortunate Buddhas (Brazilian Literature) by Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro Publisher Comments Set in 1940s and '50s provincial Brazil, House of the Fortunate Buddhas is perhaps most startling for it fiery, uninhibited, and highly compelling narrator. By force of her intelligence, courage, and strength of will, she achieves an unlikely liberation... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Scars by Juan Jose Saer PW Review "In Saer's witty and affecting novel, published in Spanish in 1969, four characters become linked around a grisly killing and the trial of the accused, Luis Fiore, each telling their portion of the story, in four temporally overlapping sections that run... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hilda Hurricane by Roberto Drummond Publisher Comments Eighteen-year-old Hilda, known as the girl in the gold bikini when she swam at her country club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, abruptly leaves the gilded life to take up residence in room 304 of the Hotel Marvelous--as a prostitute. There she becomes Hilda... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Topless Tower (Hesperus Worldwide) by Silvina Ocampo Publisher Comments When a mysterious stranger arrives laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life instantly and mysteriously disrupted. Awakening locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, he finds himself trapped—the subject in one of the strangers eerie... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel Publisher Comments It is spring of 1986 in Santiago, Chile, and political and social unrest against Pinochet's dictatorship is growing. In one of the city's poorer neighborhoods, an effeminate homosexual and hopeless romantic known as the Queen of the Corner has fallen in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Campaign 1ST Edition by Carlos Fuentes Publisher Comments In this witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner, kidnaps the baby of a prominent judge... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Solitaire of Love by Cristina Peri Rossi Publisher Comments Solitaire of Love, an achingly lyrical novel by internationally acclaimed Latin American writer Cristina Peri Rossi, explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Only the fourth book of Peri Rossi’s to be translated into... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heartbreak Tango (10 Edition) by Manuel Puig Publisher Comments Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Century of the wind :part three of a trilogy by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement,... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mothers & Shadows by Marta Traba Synopsis A powerful novel of women in Latin America's hell of the disappeared.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One day of life by Manlio Argueta Publisher Comments Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador. 5:30 A.M. in Chalate, a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez List Price $11.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Christopher Unborn (Latin American Literature Series) by Carlos Fuentes Publisher Comments Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Point of Order Poetry & Prose by Ivory Kelly Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lonely Hearts Club by Raul Nunez List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Satellite City by Alecia Mckenzie List Price $11.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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