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Her Body and Other Parties : Stories by Carmen Maria Machado EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is al... continue
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Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska EN
FranceDescription:
A remarkable novel that uniquely melds journalism with fiction, by Elena Poniatowska, the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Cervantes Prize Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her native Oaxaca, abandoned by her husband and working menial jobs. So begins Jesusa's long history of encounters with the police and struggles against authority. ... continue
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Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Der rationalitätsgläubige Techniker Faber muß kurz vor seinem Tod erfahren, daß seine Weltorientierung nicht ausreicht, um menschliche Schuld und schicksalshaftem Zufall zu entgehen.
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Homo Faber : A Report by Max Frisch EN
Country: Europe / Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020
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Hydra Head by Carlos Fuentes EN
Country: North America / 
Panama
Panama
Description:
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline. The Hydra Head has a constant political reality as backdrop: the permanent tension in the Middle East and the vast new oil resources of Mexico, the setting for a brilliant attempt to portray the diversity of one man's experience.
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I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer.
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Jetzt ergebe ich mich und das ist alles by Alvaro Enrigue DE
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Janos, Mexiko, 1835: Als Apachen eine junge Witwe entführen, bekommt Leutnant Zuloaga den Auftrag, nach ihr zu suchen. In seinem Gefolge reiten unter anderem eine scharfschießende Nonne, ein alter Tanzlehrer und zwei ehemalige Gefangene aus dem Stamm der Yaqui. Als sie die Frau schließlich finden, machen sie eine verblüffende Entdeckung. New York, 2017: Ein mexikanischer Schriftsteller hadert mit der amerikanischen Politik. Aus Angst, nach einem Besuch in seiner Heimat nicht mehr einreisen zu dürfen, verbringt er den Familienurlaub im Grenzgebiet zu Mexiko, wo sich einst Géronimo, der letzte H... continue
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La "Flor de Lis" by Elena Poniatowska ES
Description:
Mariana, la narradora de esta novela, es una duquesa cuyos primeros años transcurren en Francia entre valets, mayordomos y vajillas con monograma. Esa existencia encantada toca a su brusco fin con la segunda guerra mundial: el duque, su padre, se va al frente, y la narradora, junto con su hermana y su madre, escapa a México, país del que hasta ahora nada sabía y que se convertirá, en todos sentidos, en su patria. Poco a poco, Mariana va dando los muchísimos pasos que la llevarán a entender lo que son su vieja clase y su nuevo país. En ese proceso interviene el segundo personaje fascinante de e... continue
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La leyenda de los soles by Homero Aridjis ES
Country: North America / Mexico
Mexico
Description:
La leyenda de los soles es una historia situada en el a o 2027 en la ciudad de M xico. la urbe agoniza; no hay rboles ni agua y escasea la energ a el ctrica. el sol ya no es visible en las calles y la contaminaci n hace de los crep sculos manchones de luz ocre. el terror cubre la ciudad. En sus calles, una pareja es testigo de una trama c smica y realista urdida con los mitos aztecas y el panorama poco halag e o de la ciudad m s grande del mundo.