Classics of Latin American Literature


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The most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
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Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes.
This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes...

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A young scholar, employed by an aged widow to edit her husband's memoirs, falls in love with her niece in this novella of horror and beauty.
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Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.
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"Juan Preciado, honoring a promise made to his dying mother, travels to the town of Comala, Mexico, in search of his father and encounters only the ghosts of the past."--