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1) The wonders
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, during the Women's March in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha train station when it overflowed with protesters and strikers. Women, so many women, were flooding the streets with their...
2) Berta Isla
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl she decided to marry Tomás Nevinson, the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. She was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Tomás has become a stranger to her. And he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. -- adapted...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
Description
"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 generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life disintegrates after cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. Jorge Comensal's The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón's cancer through his body and through the lives...
6) Until August
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
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