Product Description: Winner of the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize.An assistant in Buenos Aires' most prestigious boarding school, Maria Teresa's job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them—an activity she gets surprising pleasure from...read more

Product Description: Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to AmericaThe Argentine army’s “Dirty War” disappeared 30,000 people in six years and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate another vanished person, even if that missing person is his cousin...read more

Product Description: THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time boasts a triple-play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and thereby save the lives of an aristocrat in love with a murdered prostitute from the past; of a woman bent on fleeing the strictures of Victorian society; and of his very own wife, who may have become a pawn in a 4th-dimensional plot to murder the authors of Dracula, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, in order to alter their identities and steal their fictional creations...read more

Product Description: Ríos’s first novel, at last translated into English.In the late ’60s, Julián Ríos began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn’t pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the completed book to publishers...read more

Product Description: "This is a subtle, complex book. . . . A new generation of Argentinean writers are showing that they are worthy successors of Borges, Sabato and Bioy Casares."—Le DevoirNew York, 1923: the Argentine boxer Luis Angel Firpo knocks out of the ring Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world...read more

Product Description: Our hero, Gonewiththewind, has once again been released by the police from a lunatic asylum in Barcelona. This time his mission is to recover a briefcase filled with money lost under very peculiar circumstances.Mysteries and mishaps follow each other at breakneck speed, as the hapless detective delves beyond humor and the absurd to the frontiers of the truly surreal...read more

Product Description: "One of the finest examples of European 'noir' literature."—John Harvey"Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow."—Publishers WeeklyPepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-Marxist, and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of indentifying it is through a tattoo that says "Born to raise hell in hell...read more

Product Description: “Between 1977 and 1990, Montalbán wrote half a dozen novels that stand among the best in modern Spanish literature. Like Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, he is the man of honour walking the mean streets of a sick society.”—The Independent "Pepe Carvalho is a true original...read more

Product Description: In this beautifully translated account of loss and reconciliation set in the time of the Spanish Civil War, four subtly connected vignettes come together to form a cohesive narrative that underlines the horrors of the war in Spain...read more

Product Description: "At Last, at last, a biography of Che Guevara for grown-ups! Nick Caistor, well-known for years as a commentator on Latin America for the BBC, has produced a study of a man who is all too often treated either as a plaster saint incapable of doing wrong or as some devil from the deepest pit of Marxism-Leninism...read more

Product Description: The “riveting”(The Washington Post) #1 international bestseller—now in paperback in the U.S. In the tradition of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, here is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war, set in the golden age of 14th-century Barcelona...read more

Product Description: “Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review“Wonderfully inventive and hilarious.”—GuardianReleased from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school, aided only by his prostitute sister Mercedes...read more

Product Description: Rímini splits up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Sofía. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine...read more

A mysterious stranger carrying a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars arrives in the remote mountain village of Viscos, searching for the answer to a question that torments him: are human beings, in essence, good or evil? Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: As a well-bred middle-class French girl, Valerie Tasso radiates a sophistication and poise that Spanish men find irresistable. She also possesses an insatiable sexual appetite. On the pages of Mémoire Sexuel, these two elements ignite into a riveting tale of sexual promiscuity...read more

The play, 'The Moldavian Pimp' was concerned about the young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promises of freedom and a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution. Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s, this novel is about Jewish immigrants.

Months after his predecessor and lover is hit and killed by a car while reading a volume of Dickinson poetry, a Cambridge professor receives a copy of a Conrad novel with a mysterious dedication and travels to Buenos Aires and Uruguay in search of its sender.

The story of a young woman's life as a call girl in Barcelona. When Valerie Tasso found herself destitute after an abusive boyfriend ran off with all her money, she began to earn a living in prostitution. Her sophistication and poise held an appeal that Spanish men could not resist. Valerie Tasso's memoir is a tale of sexual promiscuity.

Product Description: “Both a scathing and picaresque comedy, a biting and spicy concoction. Just like tequila.”—Le MondeIt’s not easy being a cop in Mexico City. Meet Carlito, a police detective with a complicated life. A wife, a mistress, children by both...read more

Set in cosmopolitan centers around the world, both before and after World War II, a collection of eleven stories follows the lives of uprooted Argentines who find themselves in a strange new world and who look back to ancestral Europe in nostalgia. By the author of Urban Voodoo. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: In the late 1940s the Civil War is over, and Franco is still very much in charge. Prullas, a once-popular playwright, pursues a crowded life in the stifling city. His producer wants him to persuade their rich patron Vallsigorri that they cannot use the third-rate actress Lili whom the backer has foisted on him...read more

The Nobel Prize-winning author offers information about the history, culture, landscape, and people of his native Portugal, in an enchanting volume written by combining aspects of a novel, guidebook, and travelogue. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Once a byword for military repression and human rights abuses, Chile's image is now that of a dynamic economic success story. The "Chilean miracle," based on radical free-market reform and export-led growth, has been presented as a model for all developing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Forget mass-produced tortilla chips and salsa dips. Discover the taste of real Latin American food, as diverse as its beautiful landscapes, drawing on age-old indigenous recipes with influences from Spain, Portugal and Africa.From the snow-capped mountains of the Andes there is drunken chicken, potatoes with walnut, cheese and chili sauce, and corn arepas stuffed with cream cheese; from the palm-fringed Caribbean, avocado and codfish appetizer, and Trinidadian callaloo; from the dusty hills of Mexico, red chicken with almonds, chopped zucchini with cream...read more