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The Line of the Sun
“A colorful, revealing portrait of Puerto Rican culture and domestic relationship” from the award-winning poet and author of An Island Like You (Publishers Weekly). Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family’s struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story’s center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer. “Cofer . . . reveals herself to be a prose wri...
A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs
This dictionary assembles 3,246 English proverbs and thousands of equivalents in five national Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of these languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for workers in newer areas such as advertising and contemporary media. The Dictionary is also of benefit to diplomats and politicians who try to improve their communication by sharing ideas formulated in some common meaningful expressions; it will assist interpreters and translators, and teachers and students for whom it is important to understand not only what the target culture expresses in the same way as their own, but also what is formulated in a different way. Finally, the Dictionary will be of great interest to non-professionals who, for the sheer enjoyment of it, wish to savour the wisdom, wit, poetry and the colourful language of proverbs.
Hispania
Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.
A Dictionary of English and Spanish Equivalent Proverbs
This Dictionary assembles 2,201 English proverbs and their Spanish equivalents. Equivalent proverbs are those which express the same concept literally, such as "Love is blind" = "El amor es ciego" or with completely different words, such as "Every cloud has a silver lining" = "No hay mal que por bien no venga." The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of the two languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for workers in newer areas such as advertising and contemporary media. The Dictionary is also of interest to diplomats and politicians who try to improve their communication by sharing ideas formulated in some common meaningful expressions; it will assist interpreters and translators, and teachers and students for whom it is important to understand not only what the target culture expresses in the same way as their own, but also what is formulated in a different way. The Dictionary is also of benefit to non-professionals who, for the sheer enjoyment of it, wish to savour the wisdom, wit, poetry and the colourful language of proverbs.
Diccionario de refranes comentado
Junto a los refranes de hace siglos cuyo uso pervive hoy en día y refranes extraídos de textos clásicos que han caído en desuso, en las páginas de este diccionario podemos encontrar refranes de nuevo cuño que se han extendido en el habla de nuestro tiempo.
Mis cuentos para los niños del mundo
Los cuentos más maravillosos para niños y adultos, sin lugar a dudas, han sido creados en la antigüedad por el gran filósofo y fabulista griego Esopo, que inspiró y conquistó sentimientos y moralejas, en ficciones que unían el reino animal con las personas. Escritores de todas las épocas hasta la actualidad, han continuado alimentando este legado de una inteligencia inocente, de una simpleza que desborda curiosidad y de una creatividad en componer una relación de personajes en situaciones insólitas y atrapantes. Estos cuentos maravillosos que relata este libro para adultos que alguna vez fueron niños y para niños que ni siquiera piensan en ser adultos, se suma a ese incansable deseo de unir a padres e hijos, a adultos y niños, en un oasis de aguas cristalinas de imaginación, donde su único reflejo es el amor en el otro.
