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Malinche: Novela (Spanish Text)

By: Esquivel, Laura

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Atria Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2281760

ISBN: 0743290348

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages lightly toned. 2006 Hard Cover. viii, 189 pp. Spanish text. Illustrated by Jordi Castells. A richly textured historical novel recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortez and Malinalli, his Indian interpreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her diverse roles as a slave to the Aztecs and as a mediator between two very different languages and cultures. Laura Esquivel, la Princesa de la literatura latinoamericana, est de regreso! Su nueva novela Malinche es el extraordinario recuento del...
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Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor

By: Esquivel, Laura; Lytle, Stephen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2000

Seller ID: 2281756

ISBN: 0609608479

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 153 pp. Translated by Stephen Lytle. Between Two Fires is a wonderful collection of the best of her passionate speeches, short writings, and recipes from the last decade or so, most never published in English. Funny, poignant, imaginative, and insightful, Esquivel muses on all the topics we have come to associate with her -- love, life, family, and of course, the importance of food in all aspects of the human experience -- while also giving us a rare look at what mak...
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Sweet as Desire: A Novel

By: Esquivel, Laura; Lytle, Stephen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2001

Seller ID: 2281761

ISBN: 0609608703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 207 pp. Translated by Stephen Lytle. Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jubilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When...
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Malinche: A Novel (English Text)

By: Esquivel, Laura; Mestre-Reed, Ernesto

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Atria Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2281759

ISBN: 074329033X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Half-inch tear to top edge of front jacket flap hinge. Pages faintly toned. 2006 Hard Cover. viii, 191 pp. English text. Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed. Illustrated by Jordi Castells. A richly textured historical novel recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortez and Malinalli, his Indian interpreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her diverse roles as a slave to the Aztecs and as a mediator between two very different languages and cultures.
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The Law of Love: A Novel with Music (Includes Music CD)

By: Esquivel, Laura; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1996

Seller ID: 2281758

ISBN: 0517706814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Includes music CD in still sealed sleeve. A fine copy. 1996 Hard Cover. 266 pp. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Includes music CD. The greatly anticipated new work from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican Midsummer Night's Dream that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. By including the music that so perfectly accompanies the story, this audio weaves and enchanting and enveloping spell that will absorb listeners in ways no novel ever has b...
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The Years with Laura Diaz: A Novel

By: Fuentes, Carlos

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2000

Seller ID: 2275912

ISBN: 0374293414

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First U.S. edition. 2000 Hard Cover. 518 pp. In this radiant hope-filled new novel, Carlos Fuentes gives us a richly painted portrait of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Laura Daz -- a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to create. Filled with brilliantly colored scenes and heartbreaking dramas, the epic story ofThe Years with Laura Dazis also a novel of subtle and penetrating psychological insight. as in Fuentes's masterpieceThe Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and then moves to Mexi...
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life

By: Gibson, Ian

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2299552

ISBN: 0394509641

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Top edge foxed, remainder mark on page base, magazine review laid in. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 551, [3] pp. 8vo. Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development. More has been written about Lorca (1898-1936) than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes, but this detailed biography--origin...
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A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good) [Havana]

By: Hijuelos, Oscar

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2002

Seller ID: 2199820

ISBN: 0060175699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, advance promotional copy. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. 8vo.It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his nam...
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Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien: A Novel

By: Hijuelos, Oscar

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1993

Seller ID: 2274121

ISBN: 0374158150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Top edge lightly foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 484 pp. 8vo. In The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos brings to life the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family. In a small Pennsylvania town, Nelson O'Brien runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, raising 14 daughters and a son with his wife, Mariela Montez. Through the eyes of Margarita, the eldest daughter, the lives, loves and tragedies of the Montez O'Briens and their complex family relationships unfold. While reflecting on...
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Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

By: Hudson, W.H. [William Henry]; Graham, R.B. Cunninghame

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Buenos Aires, The Limited Editions Club / Guillermo Kraft Ltda.: 1943

Seller ID: 2299760

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Limited edition, #115 of 1500 copies. Signed by book designer Alberto Kraft and illustrated Raul Rosarivo on limitation page. Top portion of boards toned, hinges weakening, owner bookplate on verso of front endpaper. 1943 Hard Cover. xiv, [2], 306, [6] pp. Tall 8vo. Bound in stitched rawhide, complete with horse hair, suede endpapers. Introduction by R.B. Cunninghame Graham, 32 full page illustrations by Raul Rosarivo. A memoir of Argentian author and naturalist William Henry Hudson's early life in the Pampa of Argentina. He was best known for his novel Green Mansions, but was also an ornithol...
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

By: Hudson, W.H.; Galsworthy, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1944

Seller ID: 2294184

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine lightly soiled. 1944 Hard Cover. 303 pp. Color plates and black-and-white illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, foreword by John Galsworthy. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia; Grossman, Edith

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2006

Seller ID: 2299485

ISBN: 1400034698

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. A very nice copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 188 pp. In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, G...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia; Rabassa, Gregory

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1983

Seller ID: 2301070

ISBN: 0394530748

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1983 Hard Cover. 120 pp. A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
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Early Poems: 1935-1955

By: Paz, Ocatvio

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, New Directions: 1990

Seller ID: 2275651

ISBN: 0811204782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Ink & pencil notes. 1990 Trade Paperback. A dual-language collection of Paz's early poetry is a must-have for collectors of Mexican or Latin American literature.
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Dust on Her Tongue

By: Rosa, Rodrigo Rey

Price: $7.00

Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights: 2001

Seller ID: 2277408

ISBN: 0872862720

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Lightly rubbed, ink mark on endpaper. 2001 Trade Paperback. Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle's translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa's stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central America.
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Almost a Woman

By: Santiago, Esmeralda

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Reading, Massachusetts, A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books: 1998

Seller ID: 2282390

ISBN: 0738200433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated 9/18/98 by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 313 pp. From the barrios of Brooklyn to the stage at the High School of Performing Arts and later to Harvard, Almost a Woman continues Esmeralda Santiago's amazing story of a young woman caught between two worlds. The oldest of eleven children, she is kept on such a strict leash by her powerful mother that at the age of seventeen she had not yet gone on a date. By no means sheltered however, she is experienced in the harsh realities of welf...
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The Turkish Lover: A Memoir

By: Santiago, Esmeralda

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Da Capo Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2282392

ISBN: 0738208205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 341 pp. Along with Sandra Cisneros and Julia Alvarez, Esmeralda Santiago has emerged as one of today's preeminent Latina authors. Legions of fans have waited five long years for the next chapter of the story begun in her memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman . And now the wait is over. In The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother-only to come under the thrall of the Turk a...
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