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Author | : Miguel Angel Asturias |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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An English translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish novel, first published in 1963, about a ruthless Latin American dictator who schemes to dispose of his political adversary.
Author | : Miguel Angel Asturias |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Alessandro Manzoni |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2024-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812978811 |
Italy’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together. Published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years’ War, The Betrothed is the story of two peasant lovers who want nothing more than to marry. Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an attempt to take Lucia for himself, the couple must struggle to persevere against his plots—which include false charges against Renzo and the kidnapping of Lucia by a robber baron called the Unnamed—while beset by the hazards of war, bread riots, and a terrifying outbreak of bubonic plague. First and foremost a love story, the novel also weaves issues of faith, justice, power, and truth into a sweeping epic in the tradition of Ivanhoe, Les Misérables, and War and Peace. Groundbreakingly populist in its day and hugely influential to succeeding generations, Alessandro Manzoni’s masterwork has long been considered one of Italy’s national treasures. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Author | : Miguel Ángel Asturias |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525507914 |
“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine “A formidable new English translation.” ―The New Yorker “[A] masterful translation.” ―The Washington Post Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Also available from Penguin Classics: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, Men of Maize In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Miguel Angel Asturias |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
Describes life in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala and is the outcome of the plot started in Banana Republic trilogy.
Author | : Seema Bakhru |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-01-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781539512264 |
Max the taco doesn't like being the same as everyone else. He doesn't want to be just an ordinary taco. He wants to explore, try new things, and be adventurous. Senor Jalapeno, the taco truck manager, wants Max to be normal and fit in, especially since the President is going to visit the taco truck soon. However, Max knows that the President doesn't like tacos-at all! Will Max be true to himself and explore new flavors? Will he entice the President to try something new? And will the President decide that tacos really are GREAT? This book takes you on Max's journey on learning to be himself.
Author | : Miguel Angel Asturias |
Publisher | : Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica |
Total Pages | : 1198 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9788489666511 |
Recibida desde su publicaci n en 1946 como una obra maestra, El se or Presidente inaugura en Latinoam rica un g nero que muy pronto dej abundante descendencia: la novela del dictador. Miguel ngel Asturias logr una novela de prosa impecable, de ritmos y atm sferas po ticas, en la que relata el paulatino deterioro moral de un personaje complejo.
Author | : Alvaro Vargas Llosa |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1466893737 |
Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights. When the economy in Argentina--at one time a model of free-market reform--collapsed in 2002, experts of all persuasions asked: What went wrong? Vargas Llosa shows that what went wrong in Argentina has in fact gone wrong all over the continent for over five hundred years. He explains how the republics of the nineteenth century and the revolutions of the twentieth-populist uprisings, Marxist coops, state takeovers, and First World-sponsored privatization-have all run up against the oligarchic legacy of statism. Illiberal elites backed by the United States and Europe have perpetuated what he calls the "five principles of oppression" in order to maintain their hold on power. The region has become "a laboratory for political and economic suicide," while comparable countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have prospered. The only way to change things in Latin America, Vargas Llosa argues, is to remove the five principles of oppression, genuinely reforming institutions and the underlying culture for the benefit of the disempowered public. In Liberty for Latin America, he explains how, offering hope as well as insight for all those who care for the future of this troubled region.
Author | : Miguel Angel Asturias |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Dictators |
ISBN | : 9781518290756 |
"Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece--the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism--in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A Penguin Classic. In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror"--
Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612192807 |
One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. García Márquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State, hailed as the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.