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Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...
Author
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"Prizewinning novel Disparo en la catedral follows a San Salvador journalist through an eight-month period leading up to and following Archbishop Romero's assassination. Verbatim texts of Romero's homilies incorporated into text. Bencastro's work as a playwright evident in copious dialogue. Competently translated. No supporting materials, but good for classroom use given historical context"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
En una clínica remota sobre una playa de arena negra, una mujer abre sus ojos . . . Cuando la joven Mónica Winters Borrero pierde su madre encantadora en un accidente marítimo, ella se encuentra exiliada del paraíso tropical que una vez fue su hogar. En duelo y alejada de una vida dentro de la sociedad salvadoreña, Mónica y su padre estadounidense se mudan a Connecticut, jurando nunca mirar hacia atrás. Años más tarde, un intrigante desconocido,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Gladys Darío, sterling police lieutenant for the revolutionary Sandinista government in volatile 1986 Nicaragua, has been kidnapped by a notorious Contra commander. Gladys knows she doesn't have a hope for escape, unless her partner on the police force, former Sandinista guerrilla comandante Ajax Montoya, stages a rescue attempt. When he does, it's more outrageous than Gladys could ever have imagined. But it comes at a price. Ajax is imprisoned...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Puerto Santa Lucía
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
La mansión del olvido / Mario Bencastro. Luego de sus triunfos internacionales logrados con Disparo en la catedral, Odisea del Norte y Paraíso portátil, Mario Bencastro nos entrega la novela épica La mansión del olvido. Armando, el protagonista, regresa a Ausolia después de dos décadas de ausencia, con el objetivo de rescatar la memoria de su familia difunta cuyo paradero desconoce. La obra transcurre entre el reencuentro con lo familiar que...
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 668
Publisher
TusQuets Editores
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Pericles Aragón, periodista muy crítico con el gobierno de 'el Brujo, ' el dictador salvadoreño, es arrestado y encarcelado, su mujer, Haydée, decide escribir un diario de los acontecimientos. Mientras anota lo que para ella serían las conversaciones con su marido, irá narrando la progresión de los arrestos, el traslado a la Penitenciaría, las prohibiciones de las visitas y, simultáneamente, el entorno familiar y social del matrimonio....
Author
Publisher
[N. Cáceres]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Some desires refuse to be denied. Angie: My life has become anything but my own. The shiny rock, the sensible fiancé...and a forced "vacation" to El Salvador, courtesy of my insufferable boss. But I play the game, for the sake of my mother's aristocratic aspirations, and for some peace. Little did I know that El Salvador would lead me straight back to a wolfish grin -- the one that has me dripping with desire, ready to leave it all and get lost in...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Salvadoran society is shocked by the murder of Olga María, a young upper-class woman and mother, and no one more so than her best friend Laura.
El desconcertante homicidio de Olga María, una mujer de clase alta y madre de familia, deja conmocionada a la sociedad salvadoreña. Su mejor amiga no concibe que alguien pueda haber asesinado -a sangre fría, delante de sus dos hijas pequeñas y en su propia casa- a esta mujer honesta y de reputación...
12) Tyrant memory
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April of 1944 failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. The book takes place during that tumultuous month between the coup and the strike....
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