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A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with 2 full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his 5 previous volumes “An engineer, poet, Cuban American . . . his poetry bridges cultures and languages—a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future—reflecting...

Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en un verde limón se ha vuelto, con el tiempo, un hito en la literatura colombiana y uno de los textos más estudiados para entender el origen de la violencia que todavía hoy azota a este país. Su lenguaje fresco, ágil y rico ha permitido que la novela perdure y que cada día sea más valorada por las nuevas generaciones.

The Nightingale & The Rose is one of Oscar Wilde’s most poignant short stories. A nightingale overhears a student lamenting that he hasn’t a red rose to give to his true love, so she sets out to find a rose, but must sacrifice a great deal to get it. The Nightingale & The Rose was first published in The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888.

Sin City is one of the most notorious cities with a high murder rate. Crime Money Drugs; C.M.D. These streets are known to get down or lay down. High crime and drug rate, it’s just high violence period. In Sin City, we had it all for a small city, we’re known as the Cocaine Kingdom, every part of town was Chaos; there was the South Sonic Crew, The North Kackalakas, and the East Bangalagas. Outsiders were scared to enter these Bandlands because every corner had Beef and every street you caught static.

Contained in this book are 25 poems, each speaking about a multitude of different subjects. Each one is written in a different style, such as rhyme and free verse, and are sure to please!

Hernán Cortés toma la pluma nuevamente hacia el final de su vida. Esta vez no se dirige al emperador ni a un numeroso y anónimo lector, sino a su primogénito, Martín Cortés, hijo de la Malinche, para contarle su vida. Le habla de su infancia en Medellín, de sus días de estudiante en Salamanca y, por supuesto, de su llegada al Nuevo Mundo y de sus amores con doña Marina. Acompañamos a Martín en el descubrimiento de sus padres. Hallamos a una mujer dulce y determinada, arquitecta del México moderno.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders—real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight—entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It's a touchstone for each of Sáenz's stories. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Time, BookPage A Must-Read: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Boston Herald, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The...

La primera novela de Albalucía Ángel es una obra torrencial y adelantada a su tiempo que mezcla vivencias, digresiones y quimeras para trasladar al lector, a través de la mente de su protagonista, en un viaje frenético que lo llevará a toda velocidad a París, Roma, las islas griegas o Venus en una narración sin límites de género ni convenciones de estilo. Una obra que supuso un antes y un después para la literatura latinoamericana escrita por mujeres e introdujo con arrebato la experimentación posmodernista en la narrativa colombiana.

Mariella Saavedra Carquin confronts hard truths in this powerful debut collection, pushing through layered complexities of immigration, race, and identity to find a way forward.

The Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50's New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos. It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and...

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil’s bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom. Hugo Contreras’s world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo’s debt from her...

Havana, 1939: It’s opening night at the famed Tropicana nightclub. Cuban American college student Natalie Trainer, on vacation from Miami, is watching from the sidelines—as usual. Then comes an invitation to dance from a handsome stranger named Antonio. Normally cautious and reserved, Natalie somehow finds herself saying yes. A tiny thrill of rebellion, of taking a chance, and Natalie’s in heaven. Will her first step into this unfamiliar realm set a new course for her life, or only tonight?

Former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace serenity with her British diplomat husband, Marcus, and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But tranquility proves elusive. Fate has other plans for Sira. Installed in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and enmeshed in the murky world of shady operators, political menace, and catastrophic violence, Sira finds her future with Marcus put to the ultimate test.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive Award-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough...

Emilia and Gregorio spent their childhood following their grandmother through the mountains of central México, gathering the ingredients she used for curandera work and learning about the supernatural world. When she passes away, the siblings are left alone. So they scrape together their money and pay coyotes to smuggle them to their father in the United States. The siblings are exhausted before they even reach the border, where the coyotes seize Emilia for their own harsh ends.

Los cuentos de Bolaño condensan todo su universo literario, uno de los más rupturistas y personales de la creación en español: la literatura, la sexualidad, lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario, la rebeldía de los que viven en el límite de la marginalidad, el viaje como huida y como forma de vida, la juventud, la violencia, las tramas policiales y el arte como obsesión.

En la Barcelona de la posguerra —ese espacio ya mítico donde transcurre la narrativa de Marsé—, el capitán Blay, con su cabeza vendada y sus suspicacias sobre los escapes de gas que están a punto de hacer volar toda la ciudad, se pasea por el barrio sacudido aún por los estertores de la guerra perdida y acompañado por los espectros gimientes de sus hijos muertos.

Con una estructura perfecta y un ritmo endemoniado, El significado del fuego reconstruye los últimos momentos de Machi a través de quienes lo conocieron: desde el fiscal a cargo del caso, pasando por el propio juez, el comisario, la esposa, los hijos, los amigos, los socios del restaurante, hasta los guardias de seguridad del country e incluso las "amigas" que lo visitaban con frecuencia.

Por fin reunida en un solo volumen la aclamada trilogía autobiográfica de Laura Alcoba: La casa de los conejos, El azul de las abejas y La danza de la araña.