“The deep rivers” by José María Arguedas “In the deep rivers, the masterpiece of Latin American literature, Ernesto, a sensitive adolescent torn between his affection for the Indians, who raised him, and his belonging to the landed class, will discover in his travels through Peru with his father, and in his stay in a
“Sab” by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda “Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin dealt with the issue of the abolition of slavery in North America, Avellaneda wrote an unhappy love story between a mulatto slave and his owner's daughter white. The book was so controversial that it was not
“The Magician from Vienna” by Sergio Pitol “In these autobiographical pages, Pitol reveals the intense relationship he has lived with his writing, the discovery of a Form, his ars poetica, the creation that oscillates between adventure and order, the instinct and math His relationship with literature has been visceral, excessive
“Old Gringo” by Carlos Fuentes “A dazzling Mexican bestseller in the United States, Old Gringo (1985) is one of the most famous novels by Carlos Fuentes, a central figure in Mexican narrative and essay writing. In Old Gringo Fuentes captures the turbulent years of the revolutionary struggle in Mexico, when an old skeptical North American writer,
“The brief life” by Juan Carlos Onetti “The brief life is one of Onetti's most famous and widely read novels, and it narrates how Braunsen introduces himself into three different degrees of reality within three contiguous stories. The main character gradually evolves into Arce and then into Gray Days.
“The Return and Other Stories” by Calvert Casey “Between the stories of The Return (1962) and the unfinished novel Gianni (1969), Casey's prose outlined a circular poetics that imagined love and desire as forms of delivery of the subject , similar to the loss of life or the suspension of the self.”
“Sepia Portrait” by Isabel Allende “Sepia Portrait tells the prodigious story of Aurora del Valle, who at the age of 30 decides to go in search of her misty family past after having grown up in a privileged environment in San Francisco, cared for by her paternal grandmother Paulina, a wealthy self-made businesswoman.”
“Severina” by Rodrigo Rey Rosa “A delirium of love. This is how its author defines this novel, in which the monotonous existence of a bookseller is shocked by the irruption of an accomplished book thief.” Extracted from Alfaguara. See also: http://mun.do/oHTigJ http://bit.ly/uchkbK http://bit.ly/oGKIf8 The selected titles are a sample of the Library materials
“Maldito amor” by Rosario Ferré “Elvira De La Valle feels a special predilection for Maldito Amor dance, and more so since she met the handsome Julio Font in Guamaní. From the hand of Ferré we know the future of the De La Valle saga and its property, the sugar company La Justicia. ” Extracted from Sololiteratura. See also:
“The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende “It is the saga of a powerful family of Latin American landowners, first in its splendor and then in the years of tribulation and decadence. The trajectory of the various characters, whose adventures span almost a century, ends up configuring a kind of parable that goes beyond the geographical framework where