Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Caviar with Rum
No country in Latin America has escaped the symbolic influence of the United States to the extent that Revolutionary Cuba has. This resistance meant that for approximately three decades the Soviet Union had an invitation to intervene in practically all Cuban spheres. With sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited these days and what this means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
J. is a smuggler living on the fringes between Eastern and Western Europe, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. He has taken a commission to illegally trap a rare Russian butterfly, and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. Just over the border in the port of Odessa, she deserts him, so J. continues alone to their original destination, a small village on the Black Sea. Then she begins to send him letters, and he waits, searching for the answer that will lure the butterfly into his net and V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, this book marks out Jose Manuel Prieto as one of the most exciting new Latin American novelists and a writer of international stature.
Rex
Constructed like a hall of mirrors, the plot could be that of a thriller. Thanks to his knowledge of the Russian language, a young man finds a job as a private teacher in the house of one of the Russian oligarchs on the Costa del Sol. He soon realises that the family is hiding for a reason that somehow involves the most incredible diamonds he has ever seen. José Manuel Prieto's visual imagery, verbal opulence and literary rigour place him in a league of his own among recent Latin American literature.
Livadia
None
Rex
None
Rex
A Proust-worshipping narrator falls into the dangerous world of the Russian mob in this novel run amok by the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
