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319 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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El albergue de las mujeres tristes es una radiograf̕a del amor y el desamor, una novela a trav̌s de la cual Marcela Serrano habla por las mujeres y los hombres de hoy, en una b͠squeda de relaciones m̀s genuinas y felices.
The Retreat for Heartbroken Women is an x-ray of love and heartbreak, a novel through which Marcela Serrano speaks for the women and men of today in search for more genuine and happier relationships.
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 641
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421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Español
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Colección compactos volume 622
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151 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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After the sudden death of her parents, Bianca descends into a living hell.
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260 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him ... Virginia Reyes's brother, an ex-political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The...
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442 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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Maya, una estadounidense que tiene 19 años, se exilia y se queda temporalmente refugiada en una isla al sur de Chile, Chiloé, la tierra del origen de su abuela. Allí se pone a escribir en un cuaderno acerca de su adaptación al lugar, sus problemas con las drogas, su vida amorosa, y otros acontecimientos.
Maya, a young American on the run, is sent to Chiloé, in a remote part of Chile, her grandmother's homeland, where she records in her diary...
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
15) Jemmy Button
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
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300 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protégé, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the memory of Pinochet's reign and the 'disappearing' of citizens still looms" (Publishers Weekly). With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Ángel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge...
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310 pages ; 22 cm.
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"El motivo del viaje mítico es transformado en la búsqueda de un misterioso hermano fallecido, en un relato donde nada es lo que pareciera ser, pero que revela al final la exasperante complejidad del individuo. El título proviene de un poema de Gonzalo Rojas que ilumina el sentido final de las peripecias narradas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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276 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Imprisoned for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene has been tortured for months in Pinochet's Chile when he is visited by two angels who promise that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again. Months later, in Copenhagen, where he has come for treatment, the Chilean exile befriends Michela Ibsen, herself a survivor of domestic abuse.
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