"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture. In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own...
"San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflec...
The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skarmeta s reputation as one of the most representative authors of the post-boom generation in contemporary Latin American letters (Christian Science Monitor). Boisterously funny and passionate, The Postman tells of young love ignited by the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Set in the colorful, ebullient years preceding the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, the book has been translated into nearly twenty-five languages around the world."
The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skarmeta s reputation as one of the mos...
This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protege, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the memory of Pinochet's reign and the 'disappearing' of citizens still looms" (Publishers Weekly). With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Angel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber Nicolas Vergara Grey, whose front-page exploits won him a reputation he...
This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protege, ...
Antonio Skarmetas poetischer Roman, der mit groem Erfolg zum zweiten Mal verfilmt wurde, ist eine zrtliche Hommage an Pablo Neruda. Er erzhlt die Geschichte der Freundschaft zwischen dem berhmten chilenischen Dichter und seinem Brieftrger Mario: Mit Hilfe eines Gedichts, das der junge Mann seinem vterlichen Freund abringt, gewinnt er das Herz seiner Angebeteten.
Antonio Skarmetas poetischer Roman, der mit groem Erfolg zum zweiten Mal verfilmt wurde, ist eine zrtliche Hommage an Pablo Neruda. Er erzhlt die Gesc...
