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The Neruda case
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Roberto Ampuero |
"Originally published in Spanish as El Caso Neruda by La otra orilla/Grupo Norma, Barcelona, Spain"--
"Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationall… |
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Más allá del invierno
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Isabel Allende |
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a … |
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A distant father
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Antonio Skármeta |
Jacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his passion for the French language to his Parisian father, Pierre, who, one year before, a… |
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The days of the rainbow
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Antonio Skármeta |
Bettini struggles with creating a campaign to unite the factions under a common cause, while Nico, searching for his father, a professor imprisoned by the current regime, finds his eyes opening to th… |
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Retrato en sepia
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Isabel Allende |
Una obra de extraordinaria dimension humana que eleva la narrativa de la autora a cotas de perfeccion literariaNarrada en la voz de una joven mujer, esta es una magnifica novela historica, situada a … |
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La vida doble
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Arturo Fontaine Talavera |
"Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression… |
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Camanchaca
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Diego Zúñiga |
"A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncl… |
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Atmospheric disturbances
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Rivka Galchen |
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows bet… |
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This Thing of Darkness
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Harry Thompson |
The year is 1828.
Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS *Beagle*, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. But Fitzroy hides a dark secre… |
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We Are the End
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Gonzalo C. Garcia |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
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By night in Chile
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Roberto Bolaño |
A hypnotic deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei, crazed schemes, poetry, and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of Father Urrutia, a half-hearted Chilean… |
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Mariana and the merchild
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Caroline Pitcher |
A childless old woman is given a merbaby to raise until the child can safely return to the sea. |
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Travesuras de la niña mala
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the mo… |
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