Essential Guide to Spanish Reading
Author :
Publisher : Icex
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Acquisition of Spanish publications
ISBN : 9780982141885
Wolves' Dream
Author : Abdón Ubidia
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Wolves' Dream is the story of five characters who hatch a plan to carry out a bank robbery in Quito, Ecuador in 1980, at the end of the oil boom. Against the background of the city, another character in the novel, the five schemers merge their talents and learn to overcome mutual mistrust to form a team in crime. Their dream of easy wealth becomes a nightmare, as their situation changes in ways none of them could have foreseen.
Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City
Author : Alicia Yánez Cossío
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810114081
Book Description
A magic-realism novel set in Ecuador which traces an eccentric family's history from the Conquest to modern times. One woman paints her face white for a portrait to hide her Indian origin, another weaves a carpet intended to stretch to Rome so as to encourage the Pope to visit.
Cosmos Latinos
Author : Andrea L. Bell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819566348
Book Description
The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.
Brothers of the Cosmos
Author : Takis G. Phylactou
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Green Was My Forest
Author : Edna Iturralde
Publisher : Young Eco Fiction
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2018-04
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781942134602
Book Description
Twelve stories exploring the way of life, culture, customs, and ancestral wisdom of indigenous groups living in Ecuador's Equatorial Amazon.
Ai Weiwei
Author : Martin-Gropius Bau (Berlin).
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9783791353913
Book Description
Begleitband zur weltweit grössten Einzelausstellung des politischen Konzeptkünstlers Ai Weiwei in Berlin. Der eindrucksvolle und bestens bebilderte Band behandelt unter anderem die Ai Weiweis ästhetischen Widerstand, seinen Umgang mit der Tradition und seinen Blick auf die europäische Moderne.
Where the Clouds Meet the Water
Author : Kimberly E. Contag
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592990733
Book Description
The journey of a German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in South America to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien, Contag and his children were forcibly repatriated to the country of his grandparents' birth as part of a diplomatic exchange arranged by the United States State Department and cooperating countries. Denying their Ecuadorian citizenship, they had to learn to navigate an ever-shifting horizon as they faced internment, separation, hunger, and hopelessness in Germany and France, then hostility when they eventually returned to their Andean homeland.
A Boy's Choice
Author : Maud Monahan
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Seven Serpents & Seven Moons
Author : Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Seven Serpents and Seven Moons is set on the shores of Santorontón. This tropical village is inhabited by some exceptional beings: the vigorous, rough-hewn Father Cándido and his wry talking Jesus--a crucifix presented to him by pirates from out of the past; Colonel Candelario Mariscal, the despoiler who is said to be the son of the Devil and is seeking salvation through the honest love of the daughter of the witch doctor Bulu-Bulu; and Crisóstomo Chalena, the outsider who gains control of the town's roofs and rainwater and eventually the entire village. These and many other equally protean figures cross paths and swords as Santorontón is torn between the Evil One and the Crucified One. The story is invested with a pervading sense of magic and with political meaning as well. The fantastic microcosm of Santorontón illustrates both symbolically and literally many of the essential problems that bedevil Latin America.
