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Cuentos de Octavio Escobar Giraldo
Leer los cuentos de Octavio Escobar es entrar a un territorio fantástico donde todo se parece al mundo real. Los personajes hablan como la gente de hoy y viven situaciones que contienen la marca indeleble de nuestra época. Tal vez esta sea una clave para entender las razones del encanto que producen sus historias. Parecen tan reales como lo que vemos en los sueños profundos de los que nunca quisiéramos despertar y, cuando abrimos los ojos, queda en el alma la sensación de haber vivido intensamente la vida de los otros.
House of Beauty
A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel set in and around a beauty salon in Bogota
Destinos intermedios
"Destinos intermedios se atreve a desbordar los limites del genero negro sin dejar de narrar una epoca y un tiempo marcados por la violencia, la marginacion y el narcotrafico. Es una invitacion a recorrer las carreteras que bordean el caudaloso rio Magdalena con el calor asfixiando las paginas y el eco de los disparos atravesando los dias."--Publisher's description.
Mundo Cruel
Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world.
Cielo parcialmente nublado
"Cielo parcialmente nublado" genera un impacto duradero y profundo, una huella urdida en la cotidianidad de un país que se acostumbró a la violencia. Narración limpia, impecable, la atmósfera de catástrofe mantiene en vilo al lector hasta que, conmovido, asiste al momento final en el pequeño aeropuerto de una ciudad de provincia. Sensaciones, ciclos familiares que se cierran, gestos y poses que apenas advierten los personajes, pero que marcan con hierro los años narrados y reflexionan sobre las vivencias del presente. Este es el mayor mérito del libro: el arte de decir las cosas sin nombrarlas, de excitar la imaginación y los recuerdos.
The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945
In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusse...
An Orphan World
In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in order to get by. Even when a horrifying, macabre event rocks the neighborhood and the locals start to flee, father and son decide to stay put. What matters is staying together.This is a bold, poignant text that juxtaposes a very tender father-son relationship with the son's sexual liberation and a brutal depiction of homophobic violence. Giuseppe Caputo uses delicate – yet electrifying – lyricism and imagery to wea...
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
You Exist Too Much
A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s response only intensifies a sense of shame: “You exist too much,” she tells her daughter. Tol...
Medellín: environment urbanism society
In recent times what has become known as "the case of Medellín " has generated a growing interest in the international community. These urban transformation that Medellín has experimented have become a focus of attention and reference for experts in many fields, around the world. The book ́Medellin: Environment, Urbanism and Society ́, that now published the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, Urbam, of EAFIT University is a testimony of the value given by our culture to the accomplishments of the city, to the idea of the public sphere and the growing relationship between the technical sphere and the political sphere, understood in the broad sense as a form of disciplinary knowle...
