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A powerful historical novel set in Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street, Weavers Lane, and under Jewish Street . . . and Swordmaker's Lanes." The Rimac shapes the narrative of this compelling historical novel that probes the brutal clash of ethnicity, r...

A mother and son's fictional journey to escape the Armenian Genocide and start anew.  Like any other fifteen-year-old boy, Aram might never have written the events of his still young life, except that he found himself suddenly plunged into exile, fleeing certain death. In 1915, the Ottoman authorities undertook the wholesale extermination of the Armenian people, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children like Aram suffered one of the tw...

An English translation of Daniel CordierâEUR(TM)s epic portrait and memoir of the French Resistance during WWII. Daniel CordierâEUR(TM)s fascinating, intimate memoir is a major contribution to our understanding of the fraught and historic relations between General Charles de GaulleâEUR(TM)s Free French and the fractious resistance movements under the Occupation during World War II. As the first young secretary to legendary Jean Moulin, one of ...

For years, Federico Garcâia Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman. Duende: Play and Theory not only provides a path into Lorca's poetics and the arts of Spain, it is one of the strangest, most compelling accounts of inspiration ever offered by a poet. Contrasting the demon called duende with the Angel and the Muse, Lorca describes a mys...

Set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Celia in the Revolution is the last in a series of young adult novels written by Encarnaciâon Aragoneses, known by the pen name Elena Fortâun, one of the most prolific and popular Spanish authors of the mid-twentieth century. In a series of more than twenty novels, Fortâun's protagonist is Celia Gâalvez de Montalbâan, a precocious and rebellious girl from an affluent family who's not afraid to questi...

A lyrical novel following an idealistic student who explores the power of literature in Franco's Spain. It's the summer of 1963 and Leâon Egea, a cocky nineteen-year-old student and aspiring author, has just finished his first year studying literature at the University of Granada and is starting a summer job as an encyclopedia salesman. Leâon, infuriated by the injustices in Spanish society under the Franco dictatorship, comes to find that lit...

A cherished erotic play by Federico Garc铆a Lorca, illustrated by a major Spanish artist. 聽 Painting, poetry, and music come together in Z贸bel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Z贸bel, a Harvard student who would become one of Spain鈥縮 most famous painters, translates and illustrates Federico Garc铆a Lorca鈥縮 haunting play about the wounds of love. 聽 The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimpl铆n con Belisa en su jard铆n, an 鈥渆rotic allelujia鈥? which Lorca once call...

New translations of poems by prominent Peruvian poet Carlos Germâan Belli. This selection of poems by internationally renowned Peruvian poet Carlos Germâan Belli tempers a dark, ironic vision of worldly injustice with the "red midnight sun" of hope. Belli's contemplative verses express faith in language, in bodily joy, and in artistic form. These thirty-five poems explore public and domestic spaces of confinement and freedom, from paralysis to...

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following Marâia Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939). She recalls growing from an imaginative tomboy into a ...

Les Misrables and Victor Hugos Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience. A look at Victor Hugos masterpiece alongside reflections from famous actors, such as Hugh Jackman, who have had the opportunity to portray Jean Valjean.

Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against the social, political, and economic conditions of Sicily. The seven works in this anthology paint a complex image of the peninsula through stories of disenfranchisement, misogyny, deep-set bigotry, ...

Dieu pictures the imaginary search for God by a nameless protagonist, who must face the possibility of failure in this quest. La Fin de Satan, an indictment of prison, war, and capital punishment, depicts an attempt at reconciliation between good and evil. This book brings two of his lesser-known works deservedly to the forefront.

A collection of poems that temper the joy of existence - the "bounty that turns the author's flawed breath into prayer" - with a questioning of empirical reality. It includes poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness, and the joys of sorrow and existence.

Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83), known for his surrealist themes and unflinching social criticism, was an artist defined by intellectual ambition and controversy. An exile who produced some of his most famous work in Mexico and France during Franco's dictatorship, he left a complicated imprint on the creative landscape of the twentieth century and on generations of younger filmmakers--including his Mexican friend Claudio Isaac. Drawn f...

Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention.

Peruvian poet Luis Hernandez is legendary in his native country. Including images from Hernandez's notebooks, this book can be read not only for its powerful poetry and imagery, but also as a means to learn more about this enigmatic Latin American poet and the mystery of his life and work.

I only wanted to write about them, Narrate their fierce audacity, Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. With that stanza, a poetic journey begins in search of presence and absence among islands in the Mediterranean that for millennia were homes and then refuge for Sephardic Jews after the Alhambra Decree, the Expulsion. Inspired by her own journey to the Greek Islands, to Salonika, Rhodes, Crete, the Balkans, Agosin searches...

In her fourth book of poems, Mexican-born Olivia Maciel lyrically evokes another America. She writes with the critical and contemplative eye of a poet, revealing mystery and beauty in places dark and light, near and far. The richly allusive language of "Sombra en plata / Shadow in Silver" is a terrain at times steep, fevered, and sensual: a harmony of words scented of earth and sky. Her poems are catalysts for transformation, challenging the r...

In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street, Weavers Lane, and under Jewish Street . . . and Swordmaker's Lanes." The Rimac shapes the narrative of this compelling historical novel that probes the brutal clash of ethnicity, religion, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Peru. Set against the backdr...

Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive characters: an alligator in a bathtub, an invisible toad who appears only to a young boy, the beautiful redheaded daughter of a mushroom collector, a deceased journalist who communicates in code, an...