Cisneros, Sandra
Caramelo
PS3553.I78 C37 2003
Each year, Celaya "Lala" Reyes's family packs up three cars and drive to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life.
Cisneros, Sandra
House on Mango Street
PS3553 .I78 H6 1991
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
Cortázar, Julio
Point of Contact
PQ7797 .C7145
Point of Contact fosters opportunities for the exchange of ideas in the verbal and visual arts through its innovative and provocative publications containing creative scholarship, critical thinking and original art. The journal bridges the discourse across academic areas, between academia and the larger community.
Cortázar, Julio
Blow-up, and other stories / translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn
PQ7797.C7145 A23 1985
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim...In the stories collected here -- including "Blow-Up;' on which Antonioni based his film -- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
Cortázar, Julio
62: a model kit / translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
PQ7797.C7 S5
62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortazar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo.
Donoso, José
C*U*R*F*E*W / TRANSLATED BY Alfred MacAdam
PQ8097.D617 D4713 1988
Manungo Vera, a pop singer who has had some success in Europe but is now on the way down, returns to Santiago and is swept up in preparations for the funeral of Matilde Neruda, widow of the poet. Vera meets an old lover, Judit Torre, at a bar. The radical daughter of a wealthy father, front-page headline called her a "Debutante Turned Criminal"Judit, symbolizes elitist alienation.
Donoso, José
The Obscene Bird of Night / translated by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades
PQ8097 D61702
The narrator is Humberto, once secretary and retainer to a great Chilean family. Now left alone to serve out the end of his days as factotum for the nuns in a convent home for old women,--the unloved, unwanted pensioners of the rich-he gives himself to his memories. The past becomes the present…
Esquivel, Laura
Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies / translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen
PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1992
The youngest daughter of a well-born rancher, Tita has always known her destiny: to remain single and care for her aging mother. When she falls in love, her mother quickly scotches the liaison and tyrannically dictates that Tita's sister Rosaura must marry the luckless suitor, Pedro, in her place. But Tita has one weapon left--her cooking.
Fuentes, Carlos
Aura / translated by Lysander Kemp
PQ7297.F793 A7 1990
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There, Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
Fuentes, Carlos
The campaign / translated by Alfred Mac Adam
PQ7297.F793 C2913 1991
"On the night of May 24, 1810, my friend Baltasar Bustos entered the bedroom of the Marquise de Cabra ...and kidnapped her newborn child. In its place, he put a black baby, the child of a prostitute who had just been publicly flogged." So begins Fuentes's short but complex new novel of ideas, which describes Bustos's passionate search for the Marquise, with whom he has fallen in love, and for justice throughout Spain's American colonies.
Fuentes, Carlos
Christopher unborn /
PQ7297.F793 C713 1989
Fuentes brackets this account of Mexico (and the U.S.) in the near future with the conception and birth of its narrator. Christopher's story begins with his parents copulating on the beach on Epiphany in 1992, hoping their offspring will win a national contest by being the first child born on Columbus Day, the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America.
Fuentes, Carlos
Constancia and other stories for virgins / translated by Thomas Christensen,
Neruda, Pablo; introduction by Manuel Duran; edited & translated by Ben Belitt
PQ7297.F793 C58 1990
A collections of stories. The title story here is narrated by an elderly American doctor. While bemoaning his own mortality, he learns in a Poe-like twist that he has been married to the ghost of a Russian emigrant who died in the Spanish Civil War, 49 years earlier.
Fuentes, Carlos
The death of Artemio Cruz / translated from the Spanish by Sam Hileman
PQ7297.F793 M8 1966
The novel opens with Cruz on his deathbed, and plunges us into his thoughts as he segues from the past to his increasingly disoriented present. Drawn as a tragic figure, Cruz fights bravely during the Mexican Revolution but in the process loses his idealism--and the only woman who ever loved him.
Fuentes, Carlos
The Hydra head / translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
PQ7297.F793 C313
Set in Mexico, the book features the Mexican secret service. The story concerns the attempt by the Mexican government to retain control of a recently discovered Mexican oil field. Secret agents from Arab lands, Israel, and the United States attempt to wrest control of the source for their own purposes.
Fuentes, Carlos
Myself with others : selected essays 1988
PQ7297.F793 M97 1988
In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.
Fuentes, Carlos
The old gringo / translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and the author
PQ7297.F793 G713 1986
The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes the conflict of North America's two cultures locked in deadly embrace.
Fuentes, Carlos
Terra nostra / translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
PQ7297.F793 T37 1976
One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction‚ Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America‚ with the Indian Gods and with Christianity‚ with the birth‚ the passion‚ and the death of civilizations. Fuentes skillfully blends a wide range of literary forms‚ stories within stories‚ Mexican and Spanish myth‚ and famous literary characters in this novel that is both a historical epic and an apocalyptic vision of modern times.