In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift. Translated by Peter Bush. "
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inr...
Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. From the 17th century to the Gulf War, the West has regarded Islam as the enemy on the doorstep, and this book elucidates how relations between Islam and the West continue to...
Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of...
For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. In some thirty books of fiction, autobiography, essays and journalism, he has turned the Spanish language against what he derides as Sunnyspain, flaying the Hispanos while excavating their culture's Moorish and Jewish roots. This, his masterful two-volume autobiography first published in the mid-1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty. It charts the writer's unique journey from a Barcelona...
For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. ...
Praise for "Havana Red," the first of the Lt. Conde series:
Another winner from Bitter Lemon an innovative take on the traditional detective story. A macho cop whose investigation into the murder of a transvestite leads him to ruminate on his own attraction to this philosophy of mimetics and erasure. " "The New York Times"
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Conde s quest follows the basic rhythm of the whodunit, but Padura syncopates it with brilliant literary riffs on Cuban sex, society, religion, even food. "Independent"
The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade...
Praise for "Havana Red," the first of the Lt. Conde series:
Another winner from Bitter Lemon an innovative take on the traditional detective st...