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Como agua para chocolate

Written by Laura Esquivel


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 25, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72123-3 (0-385-72123-4)

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Like Water for Chocolate
A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Written by Laura Esquivel


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-42017-4 (0-385-42017-X)

Set in turn-of-the-century Mexico, this romantic, earthy, and poignant story, touched with bittersweet moments of magic and sensuality, celebrates food and passion. As the youngest daughter in a traditional Mexican family led by a tyrannical rancher, Tita de la Garza is bound by tradition to remain unmarried so that she can... Read more >

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Swift as Desire

Written by Laura Esquivel


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72151-6 (0-385-72151-X)

A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.

Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Tan veloz como el deseo
Una Novela
Written by Laura Esquivel


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72163-9 (0-385-72163-3)

Laura Esquivel, author the international bestseller Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate), one of the most beloved novels of recent years, returns to favorite themes–the power of love, the truths of the human heart–in this story of an exceptional love affair.

Júbilo Chi is a telegraph operator who born with... Read more >

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De Gabo a Mario
El boom latinoamericano a través de sus premios Nobel
Written by Angel Esteban and Ana Gallego


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74339-8 (0-307-74339-X)

Dos narradores extraordinarios, Gabo y Mario, el poeta y el arquitecto, Lennon y McCartney, el turco y el indio, protagonizan una de las amistades más férreas de toda la literatura universal. Esos mismos amigos, diez años más tarde, terminan su relación con una pelea que llega hasta los puños. Cobijados bajo... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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La mano de Fatima

Written by Ildefonso Falcones


Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47606-7 (0-307-47606-5)

La apasionante historia de un joven atrapado entre dos religiones y dos amores, en busca de su libertad y la de su pueblo

España, segunda mitad del siglo XVI: hace más de medio siglo que ha desaparecido el último reino musulmán de la península, el de Granada. Los musulmanes, cuya presencia tenía... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Duelo del lenguaje/Language Duel

Written by Rosario Ferre


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71384-2 (0-375-71384-0)

"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between... Read more >

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Rosario Tijeras
A Novel
Written by Jorge Franco
Translated by Gregory Rabassa


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 5, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-678-0 (1-58322-678-8)

“Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death.” Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco’s study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her... Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Rosario Tijeras
Una Novela
Written by Jorge Franco


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Siete Cuentos
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-612-4 (1-58322-612-5)

Spanish Language Edition

“Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death.” Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco’s study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.

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The Eagle's Throne
A Novel
Written by Carlos Fuentes
Translated by Kristina Cordero


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7255-9 (0-8129-7255-4)

Set in the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico’s idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington’s refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a “glitch” in a Florida satellite, America’s president cuts Mexico’s communications... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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This I Believe
An A to Z of a Life
Written by Carlos Fuentes


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7254-2 (0-8129-7254-6)

In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories

Edited by Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77551-5 (0-679-77551-X)

In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the García Márquez fable... Read more >

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Doña Bárbara

Written by Romulo Gallegos


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47230-4 (0-307-47230-2)

Publicada por primera vez en 1929, este clásico de la literatura venezolana y latinoamericana narra el apasionado triángulo amoroso entre Santos Luzardo, doña Bárbara y su hija, Marisela.

Cuando el abogado Santos Luzardo vuelve a Los Llanos de Apure para reclamar las tierras de su familia, descubre que éstas están en... Read more >

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3471-0 (1-4000-3471-X)

“Exquisitely harrowing. . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered.” —The New York Times Book Review

A man returns to... Read more >

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Cien años de soledad

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47472-8 (0-307-47472-0)

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”.

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo... Read more >

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Cronica de una muerte anunciada

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3495-6 (1-4000-3495-7)

“This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away.” —New York Review of Books

A spectacular wedding, a sudden scandal, a (perhaps reluctant) murder to which an entire town... Read more >

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Del amor y otros demonios

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47535-0 (0-307-47535-2)

Premio Nobel de Literatura

“Una obra atrevida y cautivadora… García Márquez retiene una voz admirable y vital, y la pluma de un ángel”.
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar... Read more >

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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47544-2 (0-307-47544-1)

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine, a mediados de los años cincuenta. El cierre del periódico para el que trabajaba le sumió en la... Read more >

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El general en su laberinto

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3496-3 (1-4000-3496-5)

“Seldom has there been a more fitting match between author and subject. Mr. Garcia Marquez wades into his flamboyant, often improbably and ultimately tragic material with enormous gusto, heaping detail upon sensuous detail, alternating grace with horror, perfume with the stench of corruption, the elegant language of public ceremony with the... Read more >

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The General in His Labyrinth

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3470-3 (1-4000-3470-1)

“Seldom has there been a more fitting match between author and subject. Mr. García Márquez wades into his flamboyant, often improbably and ultimtely tragic material with enormous gusto, heaping detail upon sensuous detail, alternating grace with horror, perfume with the stench of corruption, the elegant language of public ceremony with the... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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The General in His Labyrinth

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4333-0 (1-4000-4333-6)

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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La hojarasca

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47569-5 (0-307-47569-7)

Con La hojarasca nació Macondo, esa población cercana a la costa atlántica colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal. En él transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extraño, un antiguo médico odiado por el pueblo. Un viejo coronel... Read more >

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Living to Tell the Tale

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3454-3 (1-4000-3454-X)

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Living to Tell the Tale

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman


Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4134-3 (1-4000-4134-1)

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.

Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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Los funerales de Mamá Grande

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47571-8 (0-307-47571-9)

En Los funerales de la Mamá Grande se reúnen siete cuentos y la novela corta que da título al volumen. De los fastuosos ritos funerarios de la Mamá Grande, soberana absoluta de Macondo, quien vivió 92 años y murió en olor de santidad, a la venganza de Don Aurelio Escovar, dentista... Read more >
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