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255 pages ; 23 cm
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1989. La sociedad salvadoreña vive sumida en el horror de la Guerra Civil. Una fatídica madrugada de noviembre, un grupo de hombres armados entra en las instalaciones de la Universidad Católica y asesina a seis jesuitas y dos mujeres a sangre fría. El padre Tojeira se ve entonces obligado por las circunstancias a tomar las riendas de la Compañía en esos días siniestros tras la masacre, con el deseo y la obligación de descubrir la verdad que...
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"Gladys Darío, sterling police lieutenant for the revolutionary Sandinista government in volatile 1986 Nicaragua, has been kidnapped by a notorious Contra commander. Gladys knows she doesn't have a hope for escape, unless her partner on the police force, former Sandinista guerrilla comandante Ajax Montoya, stages a rescue attempt. When he does, it's more outrageous than Gladys could ever have imagined. But it comes at a price. Ajax is imprisoned...
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xii, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (color) ; 24 cm
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"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...
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Dirk Pitt adventure volume 25
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449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America,...
6) El asco
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106 pages ; 23 cm.
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"El asco, una de las novelas más celebradas de Horacio Castellanos Moya, es sin duda la más controvertida de toda su producción y aquella por la que los lectores de su país le recordarán siempre. En sus páginas, el autor se propuso ±hacer una demolición cultural y política de San Salvador, al igual que Thomas Bernhard la había hecho de Salzburgo¬, y el resultado es una novela extraordinariamente incisiva y mordaz, un ajuste de cuentas y...
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32, 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border.
"Ten-year-old Jimena Pérez loves life with her parents in El Salvador. They sell fruit at the market, just like her grandmother and great grandmother did. "Fruits / are a blessing / like you, Jimena," her mother tells her. But one day a group of boys threaten her friend Rosenda at...
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