When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
Written by Timothy Black

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37774-6 (0-307-37774-1)

This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.

At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are three engaging, streetwise brothers from Springfield, Massachusetts... Read more >

Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Written by Michael Casey

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27930-9 (0-307-27930-8)

In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Now Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on everything from T-shirts to vodka to condoms—and into a... Read more >

The Invisible Mountain

Written by Carolina De Robertis

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27163-1 (0-307-27163-3)

From the verdant hills of Rio de Janeiro to Evita Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires, from the haven of a corner butcher shop to the halls of the United States Embassy in Montevideo, this gripping novel—at once expansive and lush with detail—examines the intertwined fates of a continent and a family in... Read more >

The Mule

Written by Juan Eslava Galan
Translated by Lisa Dillman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38508-3 (0-553-38508-9)

Critically acclaimed throughout Spain, and now available for the first time in English, this tender, satirical novel vividly captures the intrinsic absurdity of war—and the joys of true friendship in a place where it is difficult to distinguish man from beast.

Juan Castro Pérez is a simple muleteer caught in the brutal... Read more >

Voices of the Desert
A novel
Written by Nelida Pinon
Translated by Cliff Landers

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26667-5 (0-307-26667-2)

From one of Brazil’s most beloved writers, a magical tale of lust, power, betrayal, and forgiveness set in the royal court of thirteenth-century Baghdad: a sumptuous retelling of the legend of Scheherazade that illuminates her character as never before. In exquisite prose, Nélida Piñon transports us from the Caliph’s private sanctum... Read more >

Border Crosser
One Gringo's Illicit Passage from Mexico into America
Written by Johnny Rico

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50383-1 (0-345-50383-X)

From the author of the cult hit Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green, another riveting book of immersion journalism, exploring the violent, poignant, and darkly comic world of illegal immigration

Johnny Rico set out to cross the Mexican border as the natives do—over the fence and through the desert: a task that... Read more >

Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Trilogy
Written by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
Introduction by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64351-7 (0-679-64351-6)

Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Suppressed upon its initial... Read more >