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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges's dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Hopscotch (66 Edition) by Julio Cortazar Staff Pick "Cortazar is an elixir; Hopscotch is precise and brilliant and disturbing as hell. A balance of absurdity and beauty, literally and in each ready sense, a tightrope walk between the window and the pavement ? this is what Hopscotch injects within the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano Publisher Comments A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Steps (01 Edition) by Alejo Carpentier Publisher Comments Translated into twenty languages and published in more than fourteen Spanish editions, The Lost Steps, originally published in 1953, is Alejo Carpentier's most heralded novel.<P>A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Budapest by Chico Buarque Publisher Comments Not just one of Brazil's most influential and beloved composers and musicians, Chico Buarque has won high praise as a poet, playwright, and novelist. Now with Budapest, his third novel, he offers a darkly comic social satire and a transcontinental love... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death of Artemio Cruz, New Translation (91 Edition) by Carlos Fuentes Publisher Comments As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Education by Stone: Selected Poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto Publisher Comments "Joo Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil's most acclaimed poets . . . From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language."-New York Times Book Review Disdaining personal revelation and sentimental... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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He Who Searches : a Novel (77 Edition) by Luisa Valenzuela Synopsis A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early morning hours on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante Publisher Comments Many of Cuba's intellectuals embraced the Castro regime, but Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who criticized it, was condemned as a traitor and forced into exile. From this bitter experience, which included his hospitalization for mental collapse, came the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tower of Glass by Ivan Angelo Publisher Comments The five interlocking stories in The Tower of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil--and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humor, and... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear of Losing Eurydice by Julieta Campos Publisher Comments Like Proust's petite madeleine, the island opens up a host of images: "Island: the sum of all improbabilities; intoxicating improbability of fiction. Island: image of desire . . . All the islands formulated by human beings and all islands appearing on... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper 
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