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Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"En el Uruguay de 1977, el gobierno militar oprime a los disidentes con una fuerza brutal. En este ambiente opresivo donde los derechos personales están suspendidos, la homosexualidad es una transgresión peligrosa que debe ser castigada. Aun así, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus", Paz, y Malena--cinco cantoras--se encuentran milagrosamente en Cabo Polonio, un lugar aislado que reclaman como su santuario secreto. Y este despertar se contrapone al...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"En su casa modesta a las afueras de la ciudad, el expresidente de un pais latinoamericano anonimo recibe a una periodista en su famoso jardin, para discutir su legado y las circunstancias funestas que amenazan a la democracia en todo el mundo. A el lo conocian como el Presidente Mas Pobre del Mundo, y su reputacion es mitica: fue guerrillero y lo encarcelaron por incitar a la revolucion antes de convertirse en la imagen de la justicia, los derechos...
4) Cantoras
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2020, ♭2019
Language
English
Description
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"February 1913. Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution....
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
