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The Feast of the Goat
'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' Times Literary …
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and …
Don Quixote
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, …
Don Quixote
A definitive English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through …
The Bad Girl
When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes …
The Bad Girl
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a "...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible novel]. . . A …
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl …
In the Night of Time
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning …
Exemplary Novels
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic “Compressed masterworks, containing great …
The Neighborhood
When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, …
The Discreet Hero
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA tale of two cities--Piura and Lima--rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generations Nobel laureate Mario …
Dream of the Celt
The Dream of the Celt explores the life of the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement who was executed for treason after his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising, travelling with …