Racismo y sociedad en la Barranquilla de Marvel Moreno

At first, a little girl is thrilled when her parents bring home her baby brother, but soon jealousy takes over. Her mother helps her overcome her resentment in this story that many readers will be able to relate to.

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.

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...

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...