Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Latin American & Caribbean Studies Books

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa Picador “A magnificent storyteller . . . [Vargas Llosa] gives us a cast of unforgettable characters swept up in the upheaval . . . This is the work of a master, coming into full realization of his powers.”—*The Boston Sunday Globe*

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Bad Girl A Novel Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Picador "Spans decades and continents—and in the process, with a deftness that boreders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Prodigal A Poem Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "Derek Walcott's virtues as a poet are extraordinary . . . He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts."—James Dickey, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	How to Escape from a Leper Colony A Novella and Stories Tiphanie Yanique Graywolf Press Paper "With turns to the wild, clever, and magical that seem at once fantastic and inevitable, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a beautiful collection of short and not-so-short fiction. This is an exciting new voice."—Percival Everett

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Bitter Grounds A Novel Sandra Benítez Picador Winner of the 1998 American Book Award Spanning the years between 1932 and 1977, this beautifully told epic is set in the heart of El Salvador, where...

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Rio de Janeiro Ruy Castro; translated by John Gledson Bloomsbury USA Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Dom Casmurro A Novel Machado de Assis; Translated from the Portuguese by Helen Caldwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Epitaph of a Small Winner A Novel Machado de Assis; Translated by William L. Grossman; Foreword by Susan Sontag Farrar, Straus and Giroux In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Cuba Wars Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution Daniel P. Erikson Bloomsbury Press “Terrific background, keen insight and an evenhanded critical distance distinguish Erikson’s fine work.”—Kirkus Reviews There are few international...

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Pablo Neruda A Passion for Life Adam Feinstein Bloomsbury USA Adam Feinstein's book is the first English-language biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Relating Neruda's remarkable life story and...

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera A Novel J. Joaquin Fraxedas St. Martin's Griffin In the middle of a moonless night on a deserted beach east of Havana three men lash inner tubes together to make a flimsy raft they slide into the surf....

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Good Conscience Carlos Fuentes; Translated by Sam Hileman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Aura Bilingual Edition Carlos Fuentes; Translated by Lysander Kemp Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks 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...

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Upside Down

A Primer for the Looking-Glass World

Eduardo Galeano; Translated by Mark Fried Picador

"Galeano takes us on a dark tour through the rabbit hole at the End of History. Like the revolutionary printmaker Posada, he unmasks the belle epoque of the bourgeoisie as a danse macabre of the masses. No one has focused greater moral clarity on the inhuman conditions and radical inequalities that sustain the mirage of the New Economy."—Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Silence of the Rain An Inspector Espinosa Mystery Inspector Espinosa Mysteries Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Picador In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his head, his wallet and...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	December Heat An Inspector Espinosa Mystery Inspector Espinosa Mysteries Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Translated by Benjamin Moser Picador A retired policeman spends a typically alcohol-filled evening with his girlfriend, a prostitute. When he wakes up the next morning, his wallet and car key are...

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Southwesterly Wind

An Inspector Espinosa Mystery

Inspector Espinosa Mysteries

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza; Translated by Benjamin Moser Picador

Chief of the Copacabana precinct Espinosa is more than happy to interrupt his paperwork when a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story....

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Hardcover : $23.00 Buy	Alone in the Crowd An Inspector Espinosa Mystery Inspector Espinosa Mysteries Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Henry Holt and Co. Inspector Espinosa unwittingly ignites the obsessions of a menacing misanthrope in the latest from the highly acclaimed mystery author An elderly lady...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Window in Copacabana An Inspector Espinosa Mystery Inspector Espinosa Mysteries Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Picador Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on....

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Blackout An Inspector Espinosa Mystery Inspector Espinosa Mysteries Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Picador With no witnesses and no weapon, it seems like the case of the one-legged homeless man found lying in a cul-de-sac on São João Hill, shot through the heart,...

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Midnight on the Line

The Secret Life of the U.S.-Mexico Border

Tim Gaynor Thomas Dunne Books

A probing, ground-level investigation of illegal immigration and the people on both sides of the battle to secure the U.S.–Mexico border With illegal...

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My Sisters' Voices

Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out

Iris Jacob Holt Paperbacks

"A volume that intersperses short poems and prose selections written by teens of color from all over the country . . . The writers speak about the issues that matter most to teens (self-image, family, sex, love, abuse, pride, education, courage, race, and beauty), and Jacob's voice in her general introduction is clear and completely her own—direct, insightful, angry, and alternately adolescent and adult."—Booklist

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Talk Stories Jamaica Kincaid; Introduction by Ian Frazier Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original...