Fiction - World Literature - Central America

"Los dos enamorados siguieron conversando hasta las diez de la noche, sin darse cuenta de que dos ojos verdosos y malignos, los de doña Micaela, los contemplaban con ira".Fuerzas poderosas se opusieron al amor entre Gustavo Moreno y Blanco Olmedo: un sacerdote, un juez...

Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, which has driven Costa Rica's national and spiritual identity since the 1700s. In powerful prose, Natasha Gordon-Chipembere delivers a vivid and intimate living portrait of slavery in this nation, which was radically...

A vibrant debut story collection--poignant, unflinching, and immersive--masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded...

A vibrant debut story collection--poignant, unflinching, and immersive--masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded...

A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the radical, life-affirming virtue of testimony A. is an amateur translator, living alone in an unforgiving, late-capitalist metropolis. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, she makes rent caring for a young boy...

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar...

"[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...

The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as "the most beautiful stories in the world" by Italo Calvino)--an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic's friends, relatives, and...

A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias"An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism." ―Publishers Weekly NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A B&N DISCOVER PICK * A...