The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.?( Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women)
Nitido Aman knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn't know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When Nitido loses his father to Alzheimer's disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and Nitido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing.
Seeking answers, Nitido travels to Guatemala against his mother's wishes. Upon his arrival in the...

The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance--paper--over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most...

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.

A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan history