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Poso Wells
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless under...
Humo
Una novela que resume la esencia de América Latina Diecisiete años después de su partida, Gabriela regresa a Paraguay. El motivo inicial es que Andrei, un gran amigo de antaño y casi mentor suyo, ha muerto, y le ha legado un cuaderno muy personal. Pero regresa a Paraguay por algo más, para saldar una deuda con una época fundamental de su vida, feliz y dolorosa a la vez. En un cruce continuo entre el presente y el pasado, la novela cuenta la historia de Andrei, un joven croata que, desencantado de su realidad, se embarca rumbo a Argentina; durante la travesía traba relación con dos científicos, Ladislao Biró y Palamazczuk. Estimulado por esta amistad, y en vista de la precariedad de...
Fuga permanente
Al abrir este libro encontrarás a Gabriel Alemán a bordo de una maquina en marcha que te invitará a emprender una huida delirante. No querrás parar porque irás tras escenarios, personajes e historias que siempre soñaste conocer: n bar oscuro donde te cruzas con un descendiente de Nietzsche y la única copia de un manuscrito del filósofo, serás parte de un rodaje para la tele en el que los personajes mueren sin ton ni son; o sufrirás delirio de persecución en cada oscuro tramo de Murder at midnight. Y todo este rollo porque "esta historia es verdadera, porque no me la contaron, la vivi"
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Family Album
"Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly compromised--forces at work in present-day South America, and particularly in Ecuador. In this collection of eight hugely entertaining short stories, she dives deep into the tales that Ecuadorian's like to tell about themselves, following the foundational creation myths of that small South American nation all the way to their logical and sometimes ignominious ends. A muddy brew of pop-culture and pop-folklore yields intriguing, lesser-known episodes of contemporary ...
Fuga permanente y otros cuentos
Los cuentos reunidos en este volumen son deslumbrantes y, a la vez, frágiles trofeos de una vocación genuina. Insumisos ante su tiempo, cada uno de ellos nos enseña a mirar desde el asombro y la paciencia. Son fotografías verbales de un mundo subyugado por la precariedad de lo efímero, testimonios de la intimidad, el amor y el deseo, las deudas afectivas o los anhelos por conocer y explorar de modo incansable los límites de la naturaleza. Sea a través de la digresión, el relato de un vulnerable y distraído mundo interior; o a través de la memoria o el documento – las fuentes de un deambular curioso, tan propio de la crónica -, las historias de Gabriela Alemán avanzan a menudo por sobre el borde de algo, arriesgadas y despreocupadas a la vez, anunciando la catástrofe de una caída o de un silenciamiento que nunca ocurre. No conozco una aventura narrativa más delicada ni más poderosa que esa en la actualidad; ni a una narradora más valiente y necesaria que ella.
Like a Love Song
This debut romance follows a Latina teen pop star whose image takes a dive after a messy public breakup, until she's set up with a swoon-worthy fake boyfriend. Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak? Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star... until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating--it could end her career. Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy--not a soft-hearted British indie film star. While she fights her way back to the top with a sweet and surprisingly swoon-worthy boy on her arm, she starts to fall for William--and realizes that maybe she's the biggest fake of them all. Can she reclaim her voice and her heart? "The perfect ode to falling in love while you're still finding your voice."--Jennifer Dugan, author of Hot Dog Girl "All the fun and excitement of your favorite summer bop, and all the heart of a love ballad."--Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars "YA rom-com perfection."--Nina Moreno, author of Don't Date Rosa Santos
Worlding Latin America
This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquiry from a global perspective. Organized around the central themes of transatlantic and transpacific connections, the construction of world literary canons that include the Latin American continent, and the cultural tensions between local and global intellectual practices, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of several key theoretical and literary interventions. Essays in this volume discuss issues of translatability, geographical imaginaries, local iterations of orientalist discourses, the construction of editorial networks, and the global circulation of cultural commodities.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Violated Frames
When Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship, Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and "bad" archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruétalo situates Bó and Sarli’s films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Perón, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, and ecstasy in Bó and Sarli's films interrupted the already fragmented film narratives of the day and created alternative sexual possibilities.
