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Paula: A Memoir
Par Isabel Allende. 1995
La novelista Allende escribió este libro para lograr que su hija Paula, de veintiocho años y en estado de coma,…
volviera en sí. En caso de que Paula haya perdido sus recuerdos al despertar, Allende le cuenta la historia de su familia. Después de muchos esfuerzos, Paula finalmente aparece en un sueño de Allende pidiéndole que la deje morirBrincando por la vida
Par Mario Emilio Pérez. 1989
El escritor y periodista presenta una colección de anécdotas jocosas y nostálgicas acerca de crecer y vivir en su patria,…
la República Dominicana. Relata experiencias con bolígrafos, perros pekineses, barberos, buscapleitos, anteojos, calvicie, viajeros a dedo, borrachos y otras frustraciones de la vida que son bien abordadas con sentido del humorPaginas vueltas
Par Nicolás Guillén. 1989
El autor afrocubano, que fue proclamado poeta laureado de la Revolución cubana y es considerado como el más grande poeta…
cubano de su tiempo, presenta su autobiografía. Es una memoria de los famosos escritores, eventos y lugares del siglo XX. En particular, Guillén rememora sus amistades con Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Che Guevara, Octavio Paz y otrosLa mala memoria (Biografias y memorias)
Par Heberto Padilla. 1989
In 1958 the author, dreaming of a democratic and humanitarian state, returned to Cuba to give his support to the…
revolution. In time he became disillusioned with the Castro regime, and in 1971 he was jailed along with his wife for "subversive activities." His nine years in jail gave him a first-hand, terrifying look into the darker side of Cuba thirty years after its revolution. Spanish languageMark Twain y su mundo
Par Justin Kaplan. 1984
Es mi turno: un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces (Atria Espanol)
Par Ilia Calderón. 2020
Emmy-winning journalist shares her story, from growing up in the primarily Afro-Latino region of Chocó in Colombia, to rising to…
prominence in the U. S. Hispanic television world, first at Telemundo and later at Univision, where she is the first Afro-Latina to co-anchor an evening news broadcast. Some violence and some strong language. Spanish language. 2020El año que viene estamos en Cuba
Par Gustavo Pérez Firmat. 1997
Exiled to the United States from his native Cuba at age eleven, Perez Firmat fled the communist regime with his…
family. All of the members of the family believed that Castro would fall in a few weeks and they would return to their peaceful life in their own country. This memoir chronicles a thirty-year search for a way to meld two traditions, two cultures, and two languages into a single identity. As the author explains, families in Miami's Little Havana never gave up the hope that their customary New Year's toast would come true, "Next year we will be in Cuba." Spanish languageDetrás del Muro: novela de mi memoria imprecisa
Par Roberto Ampuero. 2014
This continuation of Our Olive Green Years delves deeper into the Chilean author's years spent living behind the Iron Curtain…
in East Germany where, despite having his basic needs met by the Communist government, he faced constant repression. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2014Tinta roja
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2020
In this semi-autobiographical novel, a journalism student is assigned to a tabloid's crime section, accompanying a hardened reporter, a driver,…
and a photographer on the streets of 1980s Santiago. They resort to any means necessary to get the scoop. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 1996Los que sueñan el sueño dorado
Par Joan Didion. 2012
Family memoir and social criticism by Sacramento-born author of Political Fictions (DB 53396). Reexamining her past writings and works by…
other Californians, Didion contends that the restless individualism of her pioneer ancestors' generations has spawned many of the state's emerging social and political dilemmas. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2012Mirada de doble filo
Par Ana Lydia Vega. 2008
Collection of journalistic writings, previously published via an opinion column in the El Nuevo Día newspaper, that offers multiple witty…
and humorous profiles of life in contemporary Puerto Rico. The award-winning author focuses on disturbing events and themes from the island. Some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2007Nueve lunas
Par Gabriela Wiener. 2021
"From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood…
that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction." -- Amazon.comNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSEl hombre que movía las nubes: memorias
Par Ingrid Rojas Contreras. 2022
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in…
a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets": the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit "the secrets," Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to "the secrets." In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono's remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse." -- Amazon.comLo que trajo el mar: crónicas
Par Frank Báez. 2020
"This collection of texts navigates between autobiography and chronicle. With cultural references such as Bob Dylan, Wilfrido Vargas, Karate Kid…
and Dylan Thomas, Frank Báez narrates episodes that go from his childhood to the present and reconstructs, with the fresh look that characterizes him, the paths along which literature has taken him." -- Translation provided by NLSStop-time (Libros del Asteroide #201)
Par Frank Conroy. 2018
"First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one…
boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood." -- GoodreadsEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
Par Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsEl ojo en la mira (Lector&s #13)
Par Diamela Eltit. 2021
"No makeup. A woman looks at the libraries of her life over time. A leftist woman who alters all the…
mandates, the absences of women writers in curricula or literary institutions. A woman who speaks out in favor of cultural minorities and recognizes herself in them, who investigates the mechanisms of domination and control, the cultural effects of dictatorships, on both sides of the Andes. She is a Chilean writer who bears the name of a dog or a flower: Diamela Eltit, the same one who in this book removes the deep layers of so many readings that constitute her. Without airs, without establishing hierarchies, until she penetrates the most real part of herself and of the times." -- Translation provided by NLSJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
Par Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- Goodreads