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LaSalle's intense, haunting novel beckons readers into the shadowy lives of undocumented workers in the US and the difficult choices they must face. Written as a single book-length sentence, Mariposa's Song is also a truly innovative achievement in the novel form itself, as it continually startles and satisfies with stylistic daring and sheer lyrical radiance.

Edgar Bonjour, after rising to suburban life, gets involved with a drug-trafficking Puerto Rican motorcycle gang from his old neighborhood and is brought down by an affair with a woman in the gang. News of his murder leads to introspection among other Puerto Rican Bonjours.

Takes the readers through Puerto Rico's capital, the city, which is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flaneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled bars and honking automobiles. Here, the author invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels.

Muna Lee was a writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the 20th century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is her biography and a collection of her diverse writings.

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Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development.

Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during the military dictatorship.

This is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican life and culture, showcasing the splendour of its customs and traditions. The novel unfolds as two revolving stories that eventually intertwine into one.