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Alessandro Manzoni, Italo Svevo, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa y Claudio Magris, protagonistas de este libro, lo son asimismo del imaginario colectivo italiano. Inquilinos privilegiados de nuestras fantasías, nos proporcionan la vara de medir para juzgar la narrativa de los dos últimos siglos y para hacer lo propio con el mundo que nos rodea. Cada uno de ellos representa una mirada distinta sobre Italia, un modo peculiar de suscitar o abatir es...

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Olga Lavanderos is a young, provocative, irreverent journalist that loves to have fun with words. She becomes wrapped up in investigations, murders, black masses, and narcotics operations in Mexico City, "the most dangerous in the world." Murder victims with hands painted green have begun to appear. She is accompanied by her grandfather-- who is obsessed with Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico-- to recover the treasures of the Mexican church.

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Observing urban life from afar with hints of both amusement and distaste, each short story in this collection describes a moment in time with the hurried detail of an anecdote told over a cup of coffee or a travel narrative on the reverse of a postcard. Black humor runs throughout these diverse stories that range from circular narratives to modern allegories, faithfully documenting urban rebellion and social isolation with a cynicism that bare...

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It is 1975 in Paris and Daniel, a Latin American student, wanders the city looking for everything he is learning about in his classes. He sees the massive protests of May 1st, the image of Vietnamese hugging French protestors, and a chance encounter of curious characters who try to keep the spirit of the ancient Greeks alive. Amidst this tangible history, Daniel's political beliefs waver back and forth. En Paris durante el ano 1975, Daniel, un...

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Three generations of the working class Altes family live through the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and the Franco dictatorship in this memoir that never ceases to be intensely personal as it makes keen social observations. Living in Barcelona during the most radically changing period in modern Spanish history, the Altes family members constantly struggle to maintain their nostalgic memories of bull running, soccer games, boxing matc...

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