LATIN AMERICAN BOOK STORE
AUGUST 2018 CATALOGUE
In February, we highlighted a catalogue of ti
tles
from Guantan
amera Editorial, a Spanish
publisher dedicated to
disseminating works
by
Cuban authors, which was formed as a platform for the island's
immensely talented writers. Many other Latin American authors also choose to publish their works in the
Iberian country, through a wide variety of publishers. This month, we're highlighting these
unique writers -- w
e hope you find the selection as interesting and varied as we do!
Below, you'll find twelve highlighted titles from the 335 items that comprise the catalogue. This list includes studies on politics, history, and culture, as well as novels, poetry collections, literary criticisms, dramas, and more. Be sure to click on the link above to browse the complete list!
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ooks.com, or call us toll-free at 1 (800) MI-LIBRO.
As always, thanks for looking!
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Darío, Rubén.
CUADERNO HULE: RUBÉN DARÍO
Texto introductorio Rocío Oviedo.
Madrid: Del Centro Editores, 2016. 2 vols. facsimiles, bibl., boards, slip cased. New. Slipcased.
"Cuaderno Hule: Rubén Darío" contains two books: A facsimile of Rubén Darío's "rubber notebook", which contains notes, thoughts, and unfinished poems from his trip to Nicaragua between 1907 and 1908; and an introduction to this collection. Printed in commemoration of the one-hundred year anniversary of Rubén Darío's death. Only one hundred copies available.
(58917) $299.90
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Castell, Nicolás and Óscar Pantoja.
BORGES: EL LABERINTO INFINITO.
Barcelona: Rey Naranjo, 2017. 149p., illus., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9788494731020.
"Borges: el laberinto infinito" explores the life of legendary Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, examining what influenced and inspired his novels and narrative style through ten graphic stories. Illustrated by Nicolás Castell and written by Óscar Pantoja.
(65007) $44.90
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Sosnowski, Saúl
BORGES, LA LETRA Y LA CÁBALA.
Madrid: Del Centro Editores, 2016. 290p., illus., bibl., boards. New . Hardcover. ISBN: 9788494550584.
"Borges, la letra y la Cábala" is an analysis of José Luis Borges' work as it pertains to Kabbalah. Saúl Sosnowski, a professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland at College Park, posits the idea that the Argentine author's interest in the esoteric method was not theological, but that he instead used it as the basis for an interpretive model in his work. This book is one of 100 signed and numbered copies, featuring a handmade Japanese fabric binding.
(63218) $99.90
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García Cartagena, Manuel (Santo Domingo, 1961).
INDÓMITA & BRAVA: POESÍA DOMINICANA 1960-2010.
Madrid: Amargord Ediciones , 2017. 571p., bibl., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9788494775581.
"Indómita & brava" is a collection of Dominican poetry written between 1960 and 2010, as well as a critical literary study and notes by Manuel García Cartagena. Featured authors include: René del Risco y Bermúdez, Miguel Alfonseca Sorrentino, Frank Báez, Homero Pumarol, Cayo Claudio Espinal, Jacques Viau Renaud, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Alexis Gómez Rosa, Enriquillo Sánchez Mulet, Luis Manuel Ledesma, Soledad Álvarez Matos, Pedro Vergés Ciman, José Enrique García, Carlos Rodríguez Ortiz, Armando Almánzar Botello, Odalís Guillermo Pérez Nina, Pedro Pablo Fernández, León Félix Batista, Adrián Javier, José Mármol, Plinio Chahín, Miriam Ventura Álvarez, Martha Rivera Garrido, Pastor de Moya, Néstor Rodríguez, Juan Dicent, Rita Indiana Hernández, Rossalinna Benjamin, Neronessa, Adriadna Vásquez Germán, Fernando Valerio Holguín, and Aurora Arias Almánzar.
(66572) $54.90
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Acha, Juan, et. al.
JUAN ACHA. DESPERTAR REVOLUCIONARIO / REVOLUTIONARY AWAKENING.
México, D.F., Barcelona : MUAC, UNAM, 2017. 295p., photos, facsimiles, graphics, wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9788417047085.
"Juan Acha" is a study on the work of Peruvian-born, Mexican-naturalized Latin American art critic Juan Acha, as well as a biographical sketch of the historical figure. This work is intended to raise public interest in Acha's legacy, and highlight his impact and achievements in both the art world and society at large, particularly Mexico's cultural revolution. This is a bilingual edition. Contents include: "Juan Acha: The hinge agent","Revolution in the revolution. The aesthetico-political writings of Juan Acha", "Revolutionary awakening", "The cultural revolution", "Art and politics", "Constellations", "Aeropostale exchanges", "Complicities", "Itineraries","Biographical sketch", "Catalog", and "Credits".
(66019) $49.90
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Padura, Leonardo (La Habana, 1955).
LA TRANSPARENCIA DEL TIEMPO.
Barcelona: Tusquets Editores, (Colección Andanzas. Serie Mario Conde, 690/8), 2018. 440p., wrps. new.
Paperback. ISBN: 9788490664797.
"La transparencia del tiempo" is a novel centering around Mario Conde, who is about to turn sixty years old and feels more skeptical than usual of his country. He unexpectedly receives an order from his old friend Bobby, who asks for help finding the statue of a black virgin that was stolen. Conde discovers that this piece is much more valuable than he realized, and Bobby confesses that it came from his Spanish grandfather, who, fleeing the Civil War, took it from a hermitage in the Catalan Pyrenees. This work follows an unexpected plot filled with gallerists, foreign collectors, murder, and crime in Havana.
(65061) $49.90
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Valencia, Margarita.
BOGOTÁ 39: NUEVAS VOCES DE FICCIÓN LATINOAMERICANAS.
Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg (Series, 177), 2018. 255p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9788417088835.
"Bogotá 39" is a selection of 39 of the best fiction writers under the age of 40 in Latin America, seeking to celebrate good literature and highlight the talent and diversity of literary production in the region. The selected authors include: Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Frank Báez, Natalia Borges Polesso, Giuseppe Caputo, Juan Cárdenas, Mauro Javier Cárdenas, María José Caro, Martín Felipe Castagnet, Liliana Colanzi, Juan Esteban Constaín, Lolita Copacabana, Gonzalo Eltesch, Diego Erlan, Daniel Ferreira, Carlos Manuel Fonseca, Damián González Bertolino, Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, Gabriela Jauregui, Laia Jufresa, Mauro Libertella, Brenda Lozano, Valeria Luiselli, Alan Mills, Emiliano Monge, Mónica Ojeda, Eduardo Plaza, Eduardo Rabasa, Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Juan Manuel Robles, Cristian Romero, Juan Pablo Roncone, Daniel Saldaña París, Samanta Schweblin, Jesús Miguel Soto, Luciana Sousa, Mariana Torres, Valentín Trujillo, Claudia Ulloa Donoso, and Diego Zúñiga.
(66573) $44.90
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Villoro, Juan (Ciudad de Mexico, 1956).
LA UTILIDAD DEL DESEO.
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, (Col. Argumentos, 513), 2017.
387p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9788433964168.
"La utilidad del deseo" is a collection of essays by Mexican writer and journalist Juan Villoro, in which he critically examines authors and literary trends from both Latin America and Europe. Villoro particularly reflects and analyzes works by Ramón López Velarde, Rodolfo Usigli, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Carlos Monsiváis, Juan Carlos Onetti, Manuel Puig, Julio Cortázar, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Karl Kraus, and Peter Handke, among others.
(64967) $44.90
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Piglia, Ricardo (Buenos Aires, 1940).
LOS DIARIOS DE EMILIO RENZI: UN DÍA EN LA VIDA.
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama (Colección: Narrativas hispánicas, 592), 2017. 294p., wrps. New. Paperback.
ISBN: 9788433998422.
"Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Un día en la vida" is a selection of texts from 327 notebooks that Argentine author Ricardo Piglia composed over the course of nearly six decades, in which he imagined himself as his literary alter ego, Emilio Renzi. The work, which was first released as a trilogy in Spain, is a multilayered and metaphorical reconstruction of the self. As the protagonist falls in love and fights with his tyrannical father, new perspectives on Latin America's tumultuous twentieth century are also revealed.
(64223) $44.90
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Suárez, Yoe (La Habana, 1990).
ESPECTROS: ANTOLOGÍA (NO CONVENCIONAL) DE PERIODISMO NARRATIVO CUBANO.
Sevilla: Editorial Guantanamera, (Crónica), 2017. 505p., wrps. New. Paperback. ISBN: 9788416849598.
"Espectros: Antología (no convencional)de periodismo narrativo cubano" is an anthology of narrative journalism in Cuba. The featured pieces are in line with Marc Weingarten's idea that the chronicle and profile arose from a historical need to cover cultural and social changes stemming from wars, murders, drugs, racial struggles, and more -- changes that a traditional reporter, who only stuck to the facts, could not grasp and translate into a greater philosophical, emotional truth. This work explores journalism that, rather than simply adhering to objectivity, provides insight into the human condition and leaves a testimony about the Cuba of today. The texts include stories on social conflicts, humorous vignettes, poetic sketches, and more.
(64802) $44.90
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Busqued, Carlos.
MAGNETIZADO. UNA CONVERSACIÓN CON RICARDO MELOGNO.
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama , 2018. 147p., wrps. New. Paperback. ISBN: 9788433998507.
During a ghostly week in September 1982, four curiously identical assassinations took place in Buenos Aires. The police searched for the murderer for almost a month. Finally, they found him -- he turned out to be a strange and taciturn 19-year-old man named Ricardo Melogno, who admitted to the crimes and described them in detail without showing any emotion. He had no motive, but psychiatrists concluded that he didn't respond to the classic psychopath profile. "Magnetizado" tries to unravel this enigma through recordings of interviews with Melogno, forensic documents, and newspaper clippings.
(66586) $39.90
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Vargas Llosa, Mario (Perú, 1936).
LA LLAMADA DE LA TRIBU / THE CALL OF THE TRIBE.
Madrid: Alfaguara, 2018. 313p., wrps. New. Paperback. ISBN: 9788420431994.
"La llamada de la tribu" is an intellectual autobiography by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
The work is not distinguished by the author's experiences, but rather by the literature that shaped his way of thinking and seeing the world over the course of fifty years. The work details the roadmap of liberal thinkers that facilitated the development of a new set of ideas after his great ideological disappointment and disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution and Jean-Paul Sartre, who formed a foundational part of his intellectual life in his youth. In this text, he particularly examines the writers Adam Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, and Jean-Fraçois Revel.
(65491) $39.90
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