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* Amigorena, Santiago H. The Ghetto Within. HarperVia. Aug. 2022.176p. tr. from French by Frank Wynne. ISBN 9780063018334. $26.99. F The time: the 1940s. The place: Buenos Aires. Vicente Rosenberg [...]

Restrepo, Laura. The Divine Boys. Amazon Crossing. Jul. 2020. 208p. tr. From Spanish by Carolina De Robertis. ISBN 9781542003735. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9781542043120. $14.95. F Five white-collar Colombian buddies ('the [...]

Rodoreda, Merce. Garden by the Sea. Open Letter. Feb. 2020. 230p. tr. from Catalan by Maruxa Relano & Martha Tennent. ISBN 9781948830089. pap. $15.95. F Francesc and Annamaria Bohigues spend [...]

*Zambra, Alejandro. Chilean Poet. Viking. Feb. 2022. 368p. tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell. ISBN 9780593297940. $27. F In this latest from multi-award-winning Chilean poet and novelist Zambra, Gregorio and [...]

Valverde, Fernando. America. Copper Canyon. Sept. 2021.176p. tr. from Spanish by Carolyn Fore he. ISBN 9781556596223. pap. $18. POETRY What if Spaniard Federico Garcia Lorca, Chilean Pablo Neruda, and American [...]

Vargas Llosa, Mario. Harsh Times. Farrar. Nov. 2021.304p. tr. from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. ISBN 9780374601232. $28. F Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner and sole survivor of [...]

* Neuman, Andres. Fracture. Farrar. May 2020. 368p. tr. From Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia. ISBN 9780374158231. $28. F Yoshie Watanabe, a retired electronics company executive and physically [...]

Enrigue, Alvaro. Sudden Death. Riverhead. Feb. 2016.240p. tr. from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. ISBN 9781594633461. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698179035. F In this award-winning novel, Mexican-born, New York--based Enrigue weaves history [...]

Lalo, Eduardo. Simone. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2015. 152p. tr. from Spanish by David Frye. ISBN 9780226207483. pap. $17. F In this key work by Puerto Rican author Lalo, an [...]

Vila-Matas, Enrique. The Illogic of Kassel. New Directions. Jun. 2015.256p. tr. from Spanish by Anne McLean & Anna Milsom. ISBN 9780811221498. pap. $16.95. F In a thinly veiled novelistic account [...]

* Sagastizabal, Patricia. A Secret for Julia. Norton. Aug. 2001. c.256p. tr. from Spanish by Asa Zatz. ISBN 0-393-05044-0. $23.95. F Buenos Aires playwright and novelist Sagastizabal won the Premio [...]

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo. Guilty of Dancing the Chachacha. Welcome Rain. Jul. 2001. c.112p. ISBN 1-56649-187-8. $22.95. F The three stories in this work, capably translated by the author, all begin [...]

Rivas, Manuel. The Carpenter's Pencil. Overlook, dist. by Penguin/Putnam. May 2001. tr. by Jonathan Dunne. c.166p. ISBN 1-58567-145-2. $24.95. F Set in Galicia during the Spanish Civil War, this novel [...]

Castillo, Ana. I Ask the Impossible. Anchor: Doubleday. Mar. 2001. c. 192p. ISBN 0-385-72073-4. pap. $13. POETRY Castillo enjoys an enviable reputation as a novelist, essayist, and poet, the latter [...]

Iparraguirre, Sylvia. Tierra del Fuego. Curbstone, dist. by Consortium. Dec. 2000. c.200p, tr. by Hardie St. Martin. ISBN 1-880684-72-1. pap. $15.95. F Based on the relatively little-known but true story [...]

Gutierrez, Pedro Juan. Dirty Havana Trilogy. Farrar. Jan. 2001. c.416p, tr. by Natasha Wimmer. ISBN 0-374-14016-2. $24. F The 'dirty' in the title refers as much to the sleazy squalor [...]

Chavez Ballejos, Gilberto & Shirley Hill Witt. El Indio Jesus. Univ. of Oklahoma. (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies). Sept. 2000. c.272p. LC 99-88182. ISBN 0-8061-3230-2. $24.95. F Less than [...]

Sanchez, Rosaura. He Walked in and Sat Down and Other Stories. Univ. of New Mexico. Jun. 2000. c.208p. tr. by Beatrice Pita. ISBN 0-8263-2213-1. $29.95; pap. ISBN 0-8263-2214-X. $16.95. F [...]

Argueta, Manlio. A Place Called Milagro de la Paz. Curbstone, dist. by Consortium. May 2000. c.203p. tr. by Michael B. Miller. LC 99-086710. ISBN 1-880684-68-3. pap. $14.95. F Picking up [...]

Martin, Patricia Preciado. Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love. Univ. of Arizona. Feb. 2000. c.121p. ISBN 0-8165-1994-3. $24.95; pap. ISBN 0-8165-1995-1. $11.95. F How do I love thee? Let Martin [...]

Gonzalez, Ray. Turtle Pictures. Univ. of Arizona. Feb. 2000. c.190p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-8165-1964-1. $29.95; pap. ISBN 0-8165-1966-8. $16.95. LIT As a symbol of longevity, patience, endurance, and quiet strength, [...]

Quinonez, Ernesto. Bodega Dreams. Vintage Contemporaries: Random. Mar. 2000. c.224p. LC 99-33380. ISBN 0-375-70589-9. pap. $12. F Chino, caught in a squeeze play between devotion to his pregnant Pentecostal wife [...]

de Almeida, Manuel Antonio. Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant. Oxford Univ. (Library of Latine America). Dec. 1999. c.224p, ed. by Thomas Holloway & Flora Sussekind. tr. by Ronald W. Sousa. [...]

* Agosin, Marjorie. The Alphabet in My Hands: A Writing Life. Rutgers Univ. Jan. 2000. c.200p. tr. by Nancy A. Hall. photogs. LC 99-23069. ISBN 0-8135-2701-5. $24. LIT Agosin (Spanish, [...]

Cossio, Alicia Yanez. Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City. Hydra: Northwestern Univ. Dec; 1999. c.240p. tr. by Kenneth J.A. Wishnia. ISBN 0-8101-1408-9. $24.95. F As a chronicle of [...]

Agosin, Marjorie. Lluvia en el Desierto/Rain in the Desert. Sherman Asher. Sept. 1999. c.112p. tr. by Celeste Kostopolus-Cooperman. LC 99-35296. ISBN 1-890932-09-4. pap. $15. POETRY Poet, critic, and human rights [...]

Cerda, Carlos. To Die in Berlin. Latin American Literary Review, dist. by Consortium. Jul. 1999. c.176p, permanent paper. ISBN 1-891270-00-1. pap. $15.95. F In preunified East Berlin, where communism's iron [...]

Guillen, Jorge. Horses in the Air and Other Poems. City Lights. Jul. 1999. c.240p, tr. from Spanish by Cola Franzen. ISBN 0-87286-352-2. pap. $15.95. POETRY Although a member of the [...]

Aira, Cesar. The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof. New Directions. May 2017. 178p. tr. from Spanish by Katherine Silver. ISBN 9780811221122. pap. $14.95. F One of the most popular [...]

Pachico, Julianne. The Lucky Ones. Spiegel & Grau. Mar. 2017.272p. ISBN 9780399588655. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780399588679. F Set mostly in Colombia between 1993 and 2013 during the periods of guerrilla [...]

Oloixarac, Pola. Savage Theories. Soho. Jan. 2017. 304p. tr. From Spanish by Roy Kesey. ISBN 9781616957353. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781616957360. F In her black comedy pastiche, Argentine essayist and journalist [...]

Trueba, David. Blitz. Other. Aug. 2016. 176p. tr. from Spanish by John Cullen. ISBN 9781590517840. pap. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781590517857. F At a January landscape architecture conference in Munich, Beto [...]

* Vasquez, Juan Gabriel. Reputations. Riverhead. Sept. 2016.208p. tr. from Spanish by Anne McLean. ISBN 9781594633478. $25; ebk. ISBN 9780698179042. F Political cartoonist Javier Mallarino has earned a fearsome reputation; [...]

Marias, Javier. Thus Bad Begins. Knopf. Nov. 2016.448p. tr. from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. ISBN 9781101946084. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101946091. F After veteran film director Eduardo Muriel hires 23-year-old [...]

Marias, Javier. The Infatuations. Knopf. Aug. 2013. 352p. tr. from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. ISBN 9780307960726. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780307960733. F The blockbuster 'Your Face Tomorrow' trilogy is a [...]

* Vasquez, Juan Gabriel. The Sound of Things Falling. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Aug. 2013. 288p. tr. from Spanish by Anne McLean. ISBN 9781594487484. $26.95. F In this latest from [...]

Manrique, Jaime. Cervantes Street. Akashic. Sept. 2012. c.320p. ISBN 9781617751073. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9781617751264. $15.95. F Nine years after the successful first part of Don Quixote appeared, a pseudonymous Fernandez [...]

Bolano, Roberto. The Secret of Evil. New Directions, dist. by Norton. 2012. c.160p, tr. from Spanish by Chris Andrews with Natasha Wimmer. ISBN 9780811218153. $22.95. F It seems as if [...]

Sada, Daniel. Almost Never. Graywolf. Apr. 2012. c.344p, tr. from Spanish by Katherine Silver. ISBN 9781555976095. pap. $16. F Poor Demetrio Sordo. In his native Oaxaca, he falls for the [...]

Gonzalez, Rigoberto. Black Blossoms. Four Way Bks. 2011. c.72p. ISBN 9781935536154. pap. $15.95. POETRY This third book of poetry by Gonzalez, an award-winning Chicano writer equally at home in fiction [...]

* The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry. Farrar. Apr. 2011. c.480p. ed. by Ilan Stavans. ISBN 9780374100247. $50. POETRY This bilingual anthology includes the most representative or best-known [...]

* Neruda, Pablo. Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda. Copper Canyon. Apr. 2016. 160p. tr. from Spanish by Forrest Gander, illus. ISBN 9781556594946. $23. POETRY Culled from recently discovered notebooks [...]

Rios, Julian. The House of Ulysses. Dalkey Archive. Nov. 2010. c.280p. ISBN 9781564785978. pap. $14.95. F Rios, Spain's foremost postmodern writer, sets his latest work in an imaginary museum dedicated [...]

Hijuelos, Oscar. Beautiful Mafia of My Soul; or, The True Story of Maria Garcia y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song. Hyperion. Jun. 2010. c.352p. ISBN 978-14013-2334-9. $25.99. F [...]

Gomez-Jurado, Juan. The Moses Expedition. Atria: S. & S. Aug. 2010. c.384p, tr. from Spanish by A.V. Lebron. ISBN 978-1-4165-9064-4. pap. $15. F Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code [...]

Chirbes, Rafael. On the Edge. New Directions. Jan. 2016.464p. tr. from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. ISBN 9780811222846. pap. $18.95. F Set in Valencia in December 2010 during Spain's financial [...]

Neuman, Andres. The Things We Don't Do. Open Letter. Sept. 2015.190p. tr. from Spanish by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia. ISBN 9781940953182. pap. $13.95; ebk. ISBN 9781940953199. F Born in [...]

Vasquez, Juan Gabriel. Lovers on All Saints' Day. Riverhead. Jul. 2015. 256p. tr. from Spanish by Anne McLean. ISBN 9781594634260. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698196742. f Vasquez's late-1990s sojourn in Belgium [...]