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| Vida
Y Aventuras Del Mas Celebre Bandido Sonorense Joaquin Murrieta : Sus
Grandes Proezas En California by Ireneo Paz
$12.95 Paperback,
256 pgs (Oct 1999)
Arte Publico Pr;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 8.51 x 5.53
Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most
infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of
fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both
Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the
displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the "Forty-Niners"
who flooded into the region during the California gold rush.
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| El
Laberinto De La Soledad by Octavio
Paz
$10.50 Paperback,
400 pgs (Dec 1997)
Penguin USA (Paper);
Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x 7.73 x 5.06
This
book is an homage to the imagination and critical thought of the
great Mexican moralist and poet,
one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico
and its people, character, and culture. "Essential to an
understanding of Mexico and, by extension, Latin America and the
third world". |
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| Sor
Juana Ines De La Cruz O Las Trampas De La Fe by Octavio
Paz
$13.97 Paperback,
(June
1994)
Hispanic Book; Dimensions (in inches): 1.34 x 8.24 x 5.43
Sor Juana
displays an extraordinary sweep of imagination and intelligence, and
it is many things: a biography, a critical study, a re-creation of
an era, a meditation of Mexican history, a dialogue of poet with
poet, a reflection on the role of the intellectual in the modern
world. |
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| El
Arco Y La Lira by
Octavio Paz
$15.99 Paperback,
307 pgs (Aug 1995)
Fondo de Cultura
Economica USA; Dimensions (in
inches): 0.63 x 8.28 x 5.43
Octavio Paz asks the question
"what is poetry?" and responds by looking at the nature of
a poem, analyzing its language, rhythm and image. He concludes by
affirming that the poetic experience is unlike any other.
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| El
Laberinto De La Soledad/Postdata/Vuelta A El Laberinto De La Soledad
by Octavio
Paz
$12.99 Paperback,
(August 1995)
Fondo De Cultura
Economica; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 7.32 x
4.45
In Paz's
non-fiction examination of Mexico's history and mythology, he
laments the loss of Mexican identity and sees that as due to the
enormous number of influences that have affected the country,
particularly its Indian and Spanish past and the all-pervasive
presence of the United States. |
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| The
Collected Poems Of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 : Bilingual Edition
by Octavio Paz
$16.77
Paperback,
688 pgs (April 1991)
New Directions;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.23 x 8.97 x 6.02
This landmarked
bilingual edition gathers all the poetry the 1990 Nobel Laureate has
published in book form since 1957, the year his long poem
"Sunstone"--here translated anew--made its first
appearance. Included are the complete texts of "Days and
Occasions," "Solo for Two Voices," "A Drift of
Shadows," "East Slope," "Toward the
Beginning," and more; plus Paz's most recent collection, A Tree
Within. |
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| La
Estacion Violenta by
Octavio Paz
$6.99 Paperback,
87 pgs
(Jun
1994)
Fondo de Cultura Economica USA; Dimensions
(in inches): 0.23 x 6.60 x 4.45
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| Tiempo
Nublado by Octavio
Paz
$19.95 Paperback, 206 pgs
(Dec
1998)
Planeta Pub Corp;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 8.27 x 5.30
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| Marianela
by Benito Perez
Galdos
$11.95 Paperback,
208 pgs (Dec 1999)
iUniverse.com, Incorporated; Dimensions
(in inches): 0.64 x 9.04 x 6.07
Marianela is a young woman who
has been mistreated by life, but she is happy helping her blind
friend Pablo. But now Dr. Golfin thinks he can restore Pablo's
vision. Will Pablo continue to love Marianela once he no longer
needs her help? |
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| Misericordia
by Benito
Perez Galdos
$7.95
Paperback,
284 pgs (Jan 1999)
Distribooks Intl;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 7.01 x 4.34
The novel tells
the story of sixty year old servant to a widow. Reckless spending has left the mistress penniless, and
Benina is forced to beg secretly in order to support her, claiming
that the money she brings back comes from a priest (whose biography Benina
skillfully invents). A beggar-friend encourages Benina's belief in the possibility of a supernatural solution to her
financial difficulty. |
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| El
Ano Que Viene Estamos En Cuba by Gustavo Perez
Firmat
$9.56 Paperback,
202 pgs (Oct 1997)
Arte Publico Pr; Dimensions (in inches): 0.62 x 8.42 x 5.45
In a searing memoir of a
family torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful
search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now,
married to an American woman, and father to two children who are
Cuban in name only, Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need
to celebrate his love of Cuba, while embracing the America he has
come to cherish. |
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| El
Club Dumas by
Perez Reverte
$21.95 Paperback,
493 pgs (Nov 1999)
Alfaguara;
Rare book detective Lucas Corso
"gets more than he bargained for when he seeks to authenticate
a manuscript of Chapter 42 of Alexandre Dumas's The Three
Musketeers. The manuscript was purchased from Enrique Taillefer, a
publisher subsequently found hanged, and it leads him on a search
for the original of The Book of the Nine Doors to the Kingdom of
Darkness, a work of the occultthat was banned in the 17th century.
So why is a man with a scar trying to kill Corso, and why is
Taillefer's lubricious widow using her wiles to get backthe Dumas
chapter?" Originally published in Spain in 1993. |
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| El
Maestro De Esgrima by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
$11.87 Paperback,
356 pgs (Dec 1999)
Santillana USA Publishing
Company, Incorporated;
In 1866 Spain, Don Jaime
is an old-fashioned fencing master, unaware of the political
conspiracies around him. A mysterious and beautiful woman enters his
life, asking to be instructed in this old gentlemen's art. Once he
accepts, he is thrown into an entangled plot of intrigue and death.
"And after the final, most horrific revelations, there is a
dramatic surprise of an ending... All in all, The Fencing Master is
a splendid performance.
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| El
Sol De Breda by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
$16.95 Paperback,
254 pgs (Jan 2000)
Santillana Pub Co;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x 9.50 x 6.80
Enlisted as aide of Capitán
Alatriste in the Spanish regiments, Íńigo de Balboa tries to
survive in a world where he needs to get very close to his enemy in
order to kill him with his sword. He witnesses a historic moment,
the surrender of Breda, that he would retell later to his friend Velázquez
for a famous painting.
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| La
Carta Esferica by Arturo
Perez-Reverte
$13.97 Paperback,
590 pgs (June
2000)
Ediciones Alfaguara,
S.A.
The story of a sailor without a ship,
exiled from the ocean, who meets a woman who returns to him the
adventure of the sea. Never have the ocean and its history, the
science of navigation, adventure and mystery, been combined in such
an extraordinary manner as is done in this novel.
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| La
Tabla De Flandes by
Arturo Perez-Reverte
$14.95 Paperback,
416 pgs (June 1999)
Ediciones Alfaguara,
S.A.
A secret that could have changed
the history of Europe is hidden in the chess game depicted in a
fifteenth-century painting. Five centuries later, a young art
expert, a gay antiquarian, and a peculiar chess player team up to
unveil the mystery. They are all pieces in a diabolic chess game in
which pieces are taken and players are murdered." Paradoxes and
puzzles abound. A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever chamber mystery
about chess, life, and art.
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| El
Beso De La Mujer Arana by Manuel
Puig
$10.40 Paperback,
Rissu (Nov 1994)
Random House (Paper); Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 7.96 x 5.13
Sharply
provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the
friendship that develops between two strikingly different men
imprisoned together in a Latin American jail.
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| Boquitas
Pintadas by Manuel
Puig
$5.90 Paperback,
(March 1996)
Penguin USA (Paper); Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 7.75 x 5.11
Learning that he
is dying of tuberculosis, self-styled ladies' man Juan Carlos is
doted upon by the women in his life including his mother, sister,
and two girlfriends, who fail to see that their own lives are
crumbling in their adoration for Juan.
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| Octavio
Paz. Las Palabras Del Arbol by Elena
Poniatowska
$12.99 Paperback,
(September
1998)
Bantam Books;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 8.50 x 5.63
This biography is a lively and
affecting portrait of Mexico's most important and fundamental voice
of Spanish literature. Elena Poniatowska, an artist and journalist,
was also a personal friend and gives readers an intimate look at the
humorous and reserved Octavio Paz, resulting in a seminal book.
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| El
Zar De La Droga, La Vida Y La Muerte De Un Narcotraficante Mexicano
by Terrence E.
Poppa
$10.47 Paperback,
393 pgs (Nov
1998)
Demand Pubns;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 8.27 x 5.38
During the last years of his
violent life, Pablo Acosta smuggled a staggering 60 tons of cocaine
a year into the United States-one third of the total U.S.
consumption. Set only miles from the Texas border, Drug Lord is an
extraordinary inside look at how drug trafficking really works in
Mexico. Based on interviews with Acosta and other insiders, Poppa
weaves a tale of the smuggler's rise from humble beginnings to his grisly death
at the hands of the judge, the Mexican federal police he had
been paying off for years and who turned against him when he was no
longer of use.
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