Carolina De Robertis
2) Cantoras
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...
Author
Publisher
VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"La clase de novela por la que uno se acuesta tarde para terminarla y acostado sigue pensando en ella". —The San Francisco Chronicle
En el primer día del siglo XX, un pequeño pueblo en lo más profundo del campo uruguayo se reúne para ver un milagro la misteriosa reaparición de Pajarita, una niña que se había perdido.
Años después, Pajarita comenzará una estirpe ferozmente independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharán por crearse...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En el Uruguay de 1977, el gobierno militar oprime a los disidentes con una fuerza brutal. En este ambiente opresivo donde los derechos personales están suspendidos, la homosexualidad es una transgresión peligrosa que debe ser castigada. Aun así, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus", Paz, y Malena--cinco cantoras--se encuentran milagrosamente en Cabo Polonio, un lugar aislado que reclaman como su santuario secreto. Y este despertar se contrapone al...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A bold retelling of the traditional Greek myth of Psyche and Eros through a queer and feminist lens, grappling with the complex and thorny questions of how to harness the power of female and queer joy and cultivate freedom in a world that seeks to cage us"--
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
9) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation)"--
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in secret under the condemning eyes of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco embarks on a personal quest that will challenge, enlighten, and forever change him. He completes his education in a monastery; he reads the Bible; he dreams...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La obra más conocida de Manuel Puig, "el brillantemente inventivo novelista argentino" (The New York Times), es ahora el tema de una premiada comedia musical. El beso de la mujer araña es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimización. En una cárcel argentina, dos hombres comparten una celda: Molina, un diseñador de escaparates homosexual que es egoísta, auto-denigrante y al mismo tiempo encantador; y Valentín, un revolucionario...
12) The Neruda case
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Language
English
Description
Meeting a dying Pablo Neruda at a party in 1970s Chile, Cayetano Brulé is recruited to help Neruda solve a last great mystery in the poet's life, prompting a whirlwind expedition across the world before Brulé encounters Neruda's hidden agenda.