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Best books from North America (2058)
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Ashes of Izalco : A Novel by Claribel Alegría, Darwin J. Flakoll EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Description:
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly fa... continue

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Tongolele no sabía bailar / Tongolele Did Not Know How to Dance by Sergio Ramírez ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
«El que hace sombra, pierde el cuerpo y pierde la sombra —dijo Lord Dixon—. Apunte esa frase, camarada, que es de mi propia cosecha.» Estamos en pleno siglo XXI, en una Nicaragua en la que se están viviendo unas revueltas populares que son reprimidas brutalmente por el gobierno, apoyado en el siniestro brazo ejecutor del jefe de los servicios secretos. El inspector Dolores Morales debe enfrentarse en la distancia con ese ser terrible apodado Tongolele, responsable último de su exilio en Honduras, que mueve con frialdad y cinismo, en parte gracias a los consejos adivinatorios de su madre, mucho... continue

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El país bajo mi piel / The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
Tras casarse muy jóven y ser madre, Gioconda Belli se unió al clandestino y emergente movimiento Sandinista, sustituyendo su deseo de ser una buena esposa por la necesidad de vivir una vida plena y comprometida con los cambios sociales en su país. Irónicamente, su pertenencia a la burguesía y su carrera como poeta renombrada, le brindaron la fachada que le permitió funcionar, secretamente, como rebelde. Desde su infancia en Managua y sus encuentros iniciales con poetas y revolucionarios, a persecuciones urbanas, reuniones con Fidel Castro, relaciones amorosas truncadas por la muerte o el exili... continue

724.

Cuentos Y Poesías / Stories and Poems by Rubén Darío, Stanley Appelbaum EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Presents selections of Rubâen Darâio's writings, with English translations appearing beside the original Spanish, and includes annotations for each story and poem.

725.

The Sky Weeps for Me by Sergio Ramírez EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Description:
Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Inspector Bert Dixon, former Sandinista guerilla fighters now attached to the Nicaraguan Police Department for Narcotics, investigate the disappearance of a young woman after discovering an abandoned yacht and a wedding dress. The case brings them face to face with Cali and Sinaloa cartel smugglers, and corrupt colleagues. Sergio Ramirez (A Thousand Deaths Plus One; Divine Punishment) portrays an unsettled and impoverished Central American country attempting a retain the shreds of its revolutionary ideals.

726.

Luisa in Realityland by Claribel Alegría, Pedro Caubet, Darwin Flakoll, Erik Flakoll EN

0 Ratings
Description:
Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

727.

Natural History : A Novel by Carlos Fonseca EN

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Description:
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the de... continue


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Bewohnte Frau by Gioconda Belli DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Belletristik : Nicaragua ; Frau - Diktatur.

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La mujer habitada by Gioconda Belli ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Tras terminar sus estudios de arquitectura en Europa, Lavinia regresa a Latinoamérica para emprender su camino como mujer independiente. Pero sus planes cambian cuando conoce a Felipe, con quien establece una profunda relación sentimental. A su lado le llega la oportunidad de implicarse en las luchas populares y los movimientos de liberación de la dictadura de su país, conectando de ese modo con Itzá, una indígena que luchó contra los invasores españoles y que ahora despierta reencarnada en un naranjo para acompañar, apoyar e inspirar a Lavinia. Gioconda Belli narra con poesía e inteligencia u... continue


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