The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject of Pablo Larrain's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael Garcia Bernal When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world. For more than...
The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject of Pablo Larrain's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring ...
In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in Tehran. We follow them through the years, surviving war, disillusionment, and love, as their lives and paths intersect. With its cast of vividly drawn characters, its graceful movement through time, and the psychological shifts between childhood and adulthood, "A Handbook to Luck" is a beautiful, elegiac, and...
In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California wit...
In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garcia follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is Garcia s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self."
In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina Garcia follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to...
A medida que los descendientes de inmigrantes mexicanos se han ido estableciendo por todo Estados Unidos, ha surgido una gran literatura, pero sus similaridades con la literatura de Mexico han pasado inadvertidas. En Voces sin fronteras, la primera antologia que combina la literatura de ambos lados de la frontera mexico-americana, Cristina Garcia nos presenta un dialogo intercultural de una rica diversidad. Voces historicas de maestros mexicanos como Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska y Juan Rulfo se entrelazan continuamente con voces magistrales de chicanos como Sandra Cisneros,...
A medida que los descendientes de inmigrantes mexicanos se han ido estableciendo por todo Estados Unidos, ha surgido una gran literatura, pero sus sim...
