When the silver mines of the South American republic of Costaguana are threatened by rebel forces, a brave captain, Nostromo, steps in and offers to bury the silver to ensure its safety.

"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...

In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and to cope with their homesickness, Tomás entertains Lituma nightly...

"Auxilio Lacouture, 'madre de todos los mexicanos', uruguaya de nacimiento y residente en Mexico D. F., esta abonada a los trabajos humildes y exporadicos durante el dia e incansablemente inmersa en la bohemia de la ciudad durane la noche. Todo cambia para ella el 18 de septiembre de 1968, cuando el ejercito toma posesion del campus de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico y ella queda encerrada en los banos de la facultad de filosofia y letras....

When her lover asks her to tell him a story, Eva Luna complies with this collection of tales.

La casa de los esp©Ưritus narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios del siglo XX hasta nuestra ©♭poca. Magistralmente ambientada en alg©ðn lugar de Am©♭rica Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dram©Łtico y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y ex©đtico. Una novela de impecable pulso estil©Ưstico y aguda lucidez hist©đrica y social.

The movement of the old woman's hands is quick and youthful as she works the dough for tamales on Mars' dusty, dry surface where their cohete broke apart and crash landed. She, her husband and their only son survive, and the old man curses the coyotes who took his money for a rocket not built to accommodate his family of eleven. A storm is coming, and he rails at his wife that she's wasting her time. "We'll be dead by the time you finish your goddamn...

Desde donde estaba el niño, el aire era un tejido de centellas y fogonazos». Un niño es testigo de un brutal enfrentamiento en una carretera perdida en el departamento del Cauca. Nadie en el pueblo más cercano dice haber oído nada, pero una denuncia anónima del hecho llega a manos del fiscal Jutsiñamuy, en Bogotá. En compañía de dos entrañables heroínas, la periodista Julieta Lezama y su asistente Johana, exguerrillera de las FARC,...

"En las elecciones de Faguas -- país imaginario que aparece en las novelas de Gioconda Belli -- ha triunfado el PIE (Partido de la Izquierda Erótica). Sus atrevidas integrantes tienen un propósito inclaudicable: cambiar el rumbo de su país, limpiarlo como si se tratara de una casa descuidada, barrerlo hasta sacarle brillo. Pero nada de esto resulta fácil para la presidenta Viviana Sansón y sus ministras, sometidas a constantes ataques por parte...