Juan: 2368 books

"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."-Ricardo Piglia "What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."-Bookforum In modern-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives...

He was GARBO to the Allies and ALARIC to the Germans – the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Indeed, his spy network across Britain was so highly regarded that he was decorated for his achievements … by both sides. Throughout the war, GARBO kept the Germans supplied with reports...

El mejor libro jamás escrito sobre la mafia siciliana desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días que desvela las tramas ocultas y el funcionamiento de esta organización criminal. Una reveladora investigación histórica que documenta cómo se infiltró la mafia italiana en el gobierno mexicano,...

Fraguar el asesinato del mayor enemigo de la URSS convirtió a Leónidas Eitingon en un orgulloso héroe y en uno de los hombres más influyentes de los temibles servicios de inteligencia soviéticos. La misión más importante en la vida de Leónidas Eitingon surgió bajo las órdenes de Stalin:...

One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the collection of the Fundacin Bartolom...

Ancient Egypt is one of the best examples of a civilization based on a unitary foundation. The organization of the state, the administration, war and its rules, its educational system, its architecture, literature and arts in general, to name only few of its characteristics, were all organized and...

En la actualidad presenciamos un cambio profundo en las concepciones del territorio, las fronteras y los límites –nociones que fueron construidas a finales del siglo XIX y fortalecidas durante la mayor parte del siglo XX–. Sin embargo, cabe preguntar ¿tales cambios conducen invariablemente a...

The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema’s wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not...

On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city’s walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by first-hand accounts, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel has written an urgent novel, by turns funny and sad, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time.

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world....

Juan LePuen draws on Primo Levi’s notions of purity and impurity to examine the work, both literary and extra-literary, of the Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro. He argues that Ribeyro’s work is characterized by its impurity and that this trait ultimately affects the reception of his work. He likewise...

«Tengo estrías, celulitis y una perra fea que se llama Chelo. Al principio era bonita, pero cuando creció se le ensanchó el culo. Lo mismo que me pasó a mí, salvando las distancias…». Candela es una mujer de cuarenta y pocos años con una vida normal, acostumbrada a la soledad, enormemente...

Alguien dijo que los ángeles a menudo no saben si se mueven entre los vivos o los muertos. Y cuando se mueven entre los vivos a veces ocultan su rostro, huyen de nuestras caricias, se escabullen y desaparecen, dejándonos con la sensación de que, quizá, nunca estuvieron a nuestro lado. Alejandro...

Una gran epopeya histórica con aires de leyenda. La historia de una ciudad sometida que anhelaba la libertad y del hombre que luchó por alcanzar ese ansiado milagro. Amor, ambición, secretos, venganzas y traiciones se entrelazan sobre el fondo de una época oscura y fascinante. En...