Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.
This novel chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna's past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old family home in the mountains.
Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Gaspar de Carvajal, Jean de Léry, José de Acosta, Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, André Joao Antonil, Father Jacinto Morán de Butrón, Georges Louis Le Clerc, José Martín Félix de Árrate y Acosta, Francisco Javier de Clavijero, Juan Ignacio Molina, Simón Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Simón Rodríguez, Johann Rudolf Rengger, José María Heredia y Heredia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Domingo F. Sarmiento, José María Samper, José Martí, Baldomero Lillo, Horacio Quiroga, José Eustasio Rivera, César Uribe Piedrahita, Juan Marín, Graciliano Ramos, Ramón Amaya Amador, Julián del Casal, Rafael Barrett, Manuel González Prada, Pierre Quiroule, Oswald de Andrade, Rubén Darío, Alfonsina Storni, María Luis Bombal, Pablo Neruda, Juan Rulfo, Lydia Cabrera, José María Arguedas, Esteban Montejo, Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rigoberta Menchú, Chico Mendes, Octavio Paz, Juan Carlos Galeano, Fernando Contreras Castro, Gioconda Belli, Subcommandant Marcos, Eduardo del Llano, Esthela Calderón, Homero Aridjis, José Emilio Pacheco, Mayra Montero, Jaime Huenún, Samanta Schweblin, Berta Cáceres, Pope Francis and Eduardo Chirinos
Translated by J.M. Cohen, Nina M. Scott, Sandra Ferdman, Bertram T. Lee, Janet Whatley, Frances M. López-Morillas, Delia Goetz, Sylvanus G. Morley, Grady C. Wray, Harold V. Livermore, Paul J. Kaveney, Timothy Coates, Frederick H. Fornoff, Elizabeth Kieffer, G. J. Racz, Kathleen Ross, Esther Allen, Steven Dolph, J. David Danielson, John Charles Chasteen, Patricia González, Ralph Edward Dimmick, Arthur Dixon, Leslie Bary, Andrew Hurley, Greg Simon, Steven F. White, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Lucia Cunningham, Richard Cunningham, Jack Schmitt, Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum, Frances Horning Barraclough, W. Nick Hill, Idra Novey, Charles A. Perrone, Ann Wright, Chris Whitehouse, Anthony Stanton, James Kimbrell, Rebecca Morgan, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, George McWhirter, Margaret Sayers Pedan, Edith Grossman, John Bierhorst and Megan McDowell
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
Edited by Leticia Hernandez-Linares and Rubén Martínez
by Héctor Tobar and Juan José Dalton
Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly...
In this stunning spy novel from Arturo Arias, Tom Wright, a CIA agent, is sent to Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been abducted by a guerrilla organization known as EGP. There, he reconnects with Sandra Herrera, a former lover who has since married into one of Guatemala's most powerful families. His involvement with her exposes him to internal turmoil and a host of dangers, as he realizes she may know more than she lets on. Arias captures complex political and personal relationships in a story replete with surprising plots and counterplots, and with people whose identities and affiliations we can never completely trust.
An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and visitors to a disconcertingly erotic telephone booth accompany the picara as she pushes the limits established in patriarchal postdictatorship Argentina. With lyric prose, Alicia Borinsky creates a hypnotic kaleidoscope of voices--a tantalizing and illuminating mix of the pop culture, politics, sexuality, tango, and cinema of an enigmatic society that celebrates its own demise.
Tierra del Fuego is more than a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Captain Hornblower; it is also a chilling psychological and cultural tale, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness...
This remarkable novel continues the saga of life among the common people in El Salvador begun with One Day of Life. A Place Called Milagro de la Paz tells the story of the courage and strength of two women, a single mother and her daughter, who have to overcome the trauma of the murder of the mother's older daughter and survive in an atmosphere of bitter poverty. The book is filled, however, with magical, lyric moments of love and hope, especially surrounding the figure of a strange young girl with butterflies in her hair who appears suddenly and adopts the family. The tiny family group bravely preserves traditional values in spite of fear and repression.
The Love You Promised Me is the 6th recipient of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize, awarded annually at the Guadalajara International Book Fair for a work of fiction by a woman writer in the Spanish language. Marcela, the heroine of the novel, is a modern, professional woman in her forties sifting through her disappointment after a brief but intense, extra-marital affair. As the novel opens, Marcela is in the town of San Lazaro, the home town of her forebears, not only to pick up the pieces of her life, but also to discover the secret past of her parents. Set in Mexico in 1994, Mexico's presidential election, the Mayan insurrection in Chiapas, and the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio serve not only as backdrop, but also parallel the emotional vicissitudes in Marcela's own life.
