On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain—a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of
The author traces the resurgence of Don Quixote in the contemporary humanities. In the aftermath of World War II, the figure underwent the most radical re-interpretation since Romanticism. These chang
The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted and imaginative storytellers.The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three
New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art—complete with gorg
Alicia GimAcnez Bartletta€?s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector FermA-n GarzA3n, is arguably the most su
Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translatio
One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one d
Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares: Reading their Lessons from His Time to Oursoffers a thematically oriented reading of the Novelas ejemplares with relevant asides to Cervantes’ other works. It takes int
"Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps it
Praise for Valeria Luiselli:"Valeria Luiselli's lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery."The New York Times"Luiselli's extraordinary debut
The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flauber
Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scho
Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this no
A major new novel from the writer Roberto Bolano called “one of the best living Latin American writers”Alan Pauls, one of Latin American literature's rising stars, combines the intimate and the politi
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin Americarethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in light of the cultural history of the emotions and in conversation with
