B as in Beauty
B as in Beauty

Author: Alberto Ferreras

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2009-04-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0446550817

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Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pounds she can't lose. At least she has her career. Or did, until she overhears her boss criticizing her weight and devising a scheme to keep her from being promoted. Enter B's new tax accountant, a modern-day matchmaker determined to boost B's flagging self-esteem by introducing her to rich, successful men who will accept her for who she is. As B's confidence blossoms, so do her fantasies of revenge. But will B find true happiness or true disaster when she unwittingly falls for the one guy she shouldn't?

La Casa de Altagracia
La Casa de Altagracia

Author: Carlos Machado Allison

Publisher: Cognitio

Published: 2012-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1939393825

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Carlos Augusto, el joven guerrillero llegará a ser General de los ejércitos independentistas, agente diplomático en Europa y luego, con su hijo mayor Eduardo, acompañará a Bolívar hasta las batallas finales. Los Carvallo, tratan de preservar sus haciendas, en particular Altagracia, en el marco de una guerra que divide al país en dos bandos, aquellos que prefieren la firme mano de la corona y los que aspiran a la independencia. María Antonia, acompañada por Mariana, la segunda esposa de Carlos Augusto, son los pilares de la vida familiar. El escenario está matizado por figuras históricas y sus ideas, entre ellos Miranda, Mirabeau, Fernando VII, Condorcet, Mier y Terán, O ́Higgins, Pitt, Napoleón, Godoy, Hamilton, Bolívar, Iturbide, Owen, Casa León, Páez, Fermín Toro, Vargas, el Conde de Tovar, los hermanos Monagas, Zamora, Falcón y Guzmán Blanco. La novela se desarrolla en Venezuela, España, Francia, Inglaterra, Colombia, Perú, Curazao, Santo Domingo, Cuba y Estados Unidos.

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence

Author: Homero Aridjis

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2023-02-07

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0811231747

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An exciting new collection of poems by “one of the Spanish-speaking world’s greatest living writers” (LA Review of Books) Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico’s oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable imaginary landscapes. As Aridjis himself writes: “a poem is like a door / we’ve never passed through...” And now past eighty, Aridjis reflects on the past and ponders the future. “Surrounded by light and the warbling of birds,” he writes, “I live in a state of poetry, because for me, being and making poetry are the same.”

Living the Death of Democracy in Spain
Living the Death of Democracy in Spain

Author: Susana Belenguer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1317525434

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This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era. In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish conflict are examined; the role of the International Brigades is looked at afresh; the fate of children displaced during the Civil War is explored; and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement is revisited. The volume shows that to be any kind of soldier in the armies of the Republic, or even to be seen as a Republican sympathiser, was to become a "non-person" in the new order in Spain under Franco, and sets what supporters of the Republic had to endure within the wider European and international context of the period. This book offers timely fresh insights into the failure of the Spanish Republic and into a society that tried in vain to unite its divided people during what was a seismic era in Spain’s history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Los Remedios de Manuela
Los Remedios de Manuela

Author: Ricardo Alfonso Meric Acevedo

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1463337310

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En el siglo XIX, un joven y apuesto arquitecto español, viaja de España a un pueblo de Veracruz, para reclamar una propiedad de sus ancestros, pero se enamora de una hermosa lugareña, con la que vive un amor inconmensurable. El producto de su amor furtivo, fuera del matrimonio, es arrancado de los brazos de su madre con una deleznable mentira, para obsequiarlo a una yerbera llamada Manuela, y así esconder la deshonra de la familia, Un abominable crimen por el robo de unas perlas, y que nunca se esclarece sirve para descargar el odio del ofendido padre de la joven hacia el arquitecto; lo hace parecer culpable y lo encierran prisión bajo un nombre falso. El martirio por el que pasa en su encierro, la búsqueda incansable de su familia para dar con su paradero; su amada con el corazón de hecho que tampoco deja de buscarlos a él y a su hijo; la yerbera que descubre en su hijo adoptivo su extraordinario don, que utiliza en sus remedios con asombrosos resultados, y la llevan a la fama; el reencuentro del hijo con su madre; la amistad que surge entre ambas mujeres; llenan esta historia de aventuras, de misterio, de magia y de amor, con un final estremecedor.

Word from New Spain
Word from New Spain

Author: Marı́a (de San José, madre)

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780853230588

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This is the account of the social and spiritual difficulties of an aspirant nun in Mexico at the end of the seventeenth century. In an extensive introduction, Myers discusses the chronology and provenance of Madre Maria’s manuscript and gives biographical details of her life; surveys literary aspects of the text; and seeks to show the socio-historical value of the striking scenes of family life which the text offers. Notes and guidance are given on style, orthography and pronunciation; and a bibliographical essay complements a selected bibliography.

School of the Sun
School of the Sun

Author: Ana María Matute

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780231069175

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A Spanish writer's approach by the intimist route to the still unassuaged griefs of the Civil War...What happens is that the protected bourgeois world in which it is possible to go on with the pretext of childishness at fourteen is split open by the realities of war, or, rather, the realities of which the war is the expression.

Tratando de Olvidar
Tratando de Olvidar

Author: Maria Helena Aguilera Mizugay

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1463311141

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Obra extremadamente introspectiva e intimista, en la cual los sentimientos juegan el rol principal, desplazando a los personajes. Llevando en si el protagonismo total. Lo que nos lleva a reflexionar sobre nuestros propios conceptos de Amistad, lealtad y sinceridad...y el Amor. Ese con el que, algunos afortunados tropiezan, mientras que a otros solo le conocen por relatos o aún peor...por haberlo visto pasar acompañando a otra persona. Este sentimiento a veces se es fuerza motivadora para una metamorfosis total. Tras la cual, no seríamos capaces de reconocernos, nosotros mismos. Seguramente luego de esta apasionado viaje literario, siguiendo las vicisitudes con que la vida enfrenta a Rodrigo Blanes, para usted tampoco sera... FÁCIL OLVIDAR.