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Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling.
2) Maya Angelou
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers.
3) Ordesa
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away"--
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new autobiographical material, Hunter of Stories includes Galeano's reflections on death, written during the very last months of his life"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende ... recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her that becomes a new kind of family. Throughout, Allende shares her thoughts...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
Desde Chicago a México, los lugares en los que Sandra Cisneros ha vivido han servido de inspiración para sus trabajos ya clásicos de ficción y poesía. Sin embargo, una casa propia, un lugar en el que realmente pueda echar raíces, la ha eludido. En esta autobiografía rompecabezas, formada de ensayos e imágenes a través...
10) The angel's game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime--write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Centers on a story of lost love between Cuban writer Luis Vargas and a famous dancer named Isabella Munoz. The trajectory of Luis' life unfolds against the backdrop of modern Cuban history, from his roots in an idyllic countryside town to his current urban existence in Havana"--Container.
16) 安徒生
Author
Series
Publisher
Kang xuan wen jiao shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When Hans Christian Andersen was a little boy, he treated storybooks as jewels to be treasured. He wanted to perform on stage, but was always cast as the troll. Luckily, through theatre, he found a love for writing. He wrote about both the ordinary and fantastic, in stories like 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'The Little Mermaid', never talking down to children. This enchanting book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including...
17) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
18) Tian shi you xi
Author
Series
Dang dai wen xue volume 076
Publisher
Yuan shen chu ban she you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
20) Nim's island
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
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