Latin American Books


One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) Best Price: $3.50 After 4 years, 2 readings, a wasted week of my life, and feeling like a moron who sees glass...	Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Best Price: $7.05 This first person account of the aftermath of Columbus and the Spanish is an important read from...	The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre Best Price: $6.75 This is a beautifully wrought attempt to unearth and examine some of the deep differences...	Borges: Selected Non-Fictions Best Price: $10.74 A must read. A great selection of non-fiction material. If you know and like Borges you know...	Child Of The Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus Best Price: $3.24 Not the best book about Brazil in general, probably a well not the best book about Favelas...



One Hundred Years of Solitude Best Price: $6.87 I bought this book in a second-hand bookstore and read it a whole long summer day from morning...	The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $6.80 This novel, although mostly a series of vignettes with only the slightet of plot and character...	The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present Best Price: $3.98 This book gave birth to my interest in Latino literature. An absolute must for the literature...	Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story Best Price: $29.46 The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the...	The Lawless Roads (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.08 I read about this book in a New Republic article about Lopez Obrador, the leftist who recently...



In the Heart of the Amazon Forest (Penguin Great Journeys) Best Price: $0.27 I carry this with me. It's inspirational and makes a good gift for travel bugs. The whole...	Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion Best Price: $8.19 Since it is short stories you can have it in the car or whatever and pick it up at odd moments. ...	The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Library of Latin America) Best Price: $19.95 I read this book in Portuguese and it is the only novel I read 3 (yes, three) times in my life....	Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $7.98 This book was published in 1990 and contained 32 pieces by 31 writers, from 13 nations and...	Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature Volume 2 This anthology was published in 1977 by Rodr?guez Monegal, a noted literary critic and scholar...

The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) Best Price: $24.29 The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus...	Jaguars and Electric Eels (Penguin Great Journeys) Best Price: $1.77 Inspired by Penguin?s innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the...	The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition Best Price: $34.63 This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian C?sar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes...	Rebellion in the Backlands (Phoenix Books) Best Price: $27.70 In addition to the reviews previously posted, my advice to the non-intellectual reader is to...	The Lettered City (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $17.95 This version of The Lettered City (La ciudad letrada) is beautifully translated and includes...

The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo With Related Texts Best Price: $6.50 This book is an excellent timepiece about a specific part of the Mexican revolution. The...	Momentos Cumbres De Las Literaturas Hispanicas: Introduccion Al Analisis Literario Best Price: $47.00 While there are many introductions to Spanish literature, I would not rate this among the best. ...	They Forged the Signature of God: A Novel Best Price: $8.44 This novel, of the Dominican writer Viriato Sencion, reflects the interests and anguished of the...	The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents) Best Price: $26.67 Despite its "trendy" title -- very postmodern, combining Salman Rushdie with George...	The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) Best Price: $19.62 Sadly, this was to be John Wickham's last contribution to West Indian literature, as one of the...

A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Best Price: $31.04 A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its...	Wellsprings (The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) Best Price: $1.95 I am a fan of many topics included in this book. A few years ago I tried to understand Hayek's...	The Seven Madmen (Extraordinary Classics) Best Price: $53.86 This is a post-modern expressionistic essay on alienation in modern cities, well worth your time...	Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala Best Price: $10.00 Interesting collection of native Mayan writings, covering a diverse crossection of topics from...	Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America Best Price: $19.95 Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and racial mixtures known...

Caliban and Other Essays Best Price: $6.42	Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives by Poe Ballantine Best Price: $6.99 This is a great book. Endlessly fun and insightful and funny. Poe's adventuresome spirit...	Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community Best Price: $25.16 If you agree that magical realism is a world-wide phenomenon, rather than a mode limited to...	Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (Latin American Literature and Culture, No 8) Best Price: $28.45	New World Encounters (Representations Books, 6) Best Price: $20.00 Book Review of New World Encounters, edited by Stephen Greenblatt Written by Joanne Greig,...

Texto y vida: introducci?n a la literatura hispanoamericana Best Price: $95.95 Texto y Vida es un libro que cubre un un gran aspecto de la lituratura de espa?a en los a?os muy...	Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality	Resisting Representation Best Price: $11.95 Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag...	An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature Best Price: $36.10 It's probably the best summary you could hope for in such a concise format. For anyone who's...	Visiones: Perspectivas literarias de la realidad hispana Best Price: $30.00 This unique anthology of Spanish literature employs literary texts to explore social, political...

Facundo (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas) Best Price: $12.95 In Spanish Right from his first book, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento shows his immense literary...	Signs of Borges (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $19.95 Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single...	Introduction to Latin American Literature Best Price: $31.95 This innovative college-level textbook for third-year college Spanish courses introduces the...	The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 20012007 (City Lights Open Media) Best Price: $10.86 Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon -which Publishers Weekly described as...	In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present Best Price: $11.00 Leon-Portilla has amassed a rare thing. A compilation mostly drawn from dead societies. Much of...

Latin American Fiction: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature) Best Price: $21.95 This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin...	A Country For Children Best Price: $29.91 No creo que exista otro escritor colombiano o extranjero capaz de plasmar en un libro la esencia...	Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border Best Price: $11.25 The magazine Traffic got it wrong! The Border-with its frantic commerce in drugs, human...	Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture Best Price: $54.90 More than 150 years ago, the first Chinese contract laborers ("coolies") arrived in...	Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) Best Price: $19.44 This is my favorite book. I have read it so many times I have lost the count, and each time I...

Testimonio: On the Politics of Truth Best Price: $19.50 These four germinal essays by John Beverley sparked the widespread discussion and debate...	Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands (Latin America in Translation/En Traducci?n/Em Tradu??o) Best Price: $5.95 Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still...	Peake's Progress Best Price: $22.04 I need say no more - this alone is worth the book: THE VASTEST THINGS ARE THOSE WE MAY NOT...	The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $19.83 The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin...	The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction Best Price: $11.50 Levine's book is a very personal exploration of the problems of translating not just one...

At Home with the Patagonians (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers Series) Best Price: $18.60 This is quite the best of the books written in the late 19th century by British travelers who...	Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature Best Price: $20.25 The author not only argues for feminism, but she does so in a unique manner, and innovative...

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