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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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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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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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Vivir Para Contarla (Vintage Espanol)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Pocos libros han despertado tanta expectación en todo el mundo como la autobiografía de Gabriel García Márquez, autor de Cien años de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, García Márquez nos... (read more)
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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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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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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)
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
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)
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)
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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