Noches tristes y día alegre. Vida y hechos del famoso caballero don Catrín de la Fachenda

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

Galardonada con el premio Ondaatje 2006, esta tercera obra del periodista y escritor inglés James Meek recrea el marco grandioso y dramático propio de la gran novela rusa, en una suerte de fábula moderna en la que los destinos de un puñado de personajes, encerrados en un fascinante microcosmos, se dan cita formando una trama vertiginosa, perfectamente construida. En las postrimerías de la guerra civil que siguió a la revolución de Octubre, el remoto e inhóspito pueblo de Yazik alberga a una pequeña secta que vive de espaldas a las convulsiones del mundo, sigilosamente entregada a la...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...