When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of th[...]
The Nobel Prize-winning poet's most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edi[...]
"Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Now available in a Spanish language edition from Ballantine [...]
An anthology of modern Cuban literature presents a rich array of essays, novel excerpts, short stories, and poetry by Jos Marti, Reinaldo Arenas, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Nancy Morejn, Jos Lezama Lima, Lydia Cabrera, Gustavo Prez-Firmat, Rafael Campo, Ana Menendez, and other distinguished writers. Orig[...]
The "power of sisterhood and female friendships shine" (Publishers Weekly") in this boarding school novel that spans continents and delves deep with maturity and grace.
Shirin is an Iranian princess; Ingrid, a German-Canadian eccentric; and Vivien, a Cuban-Jewish New Yorker culinary phenom. The [...]
This book includes all of the designs presented by the Catedra Ceramica (the ceramics department of the international university of Catalonia or UIC) and, in addition, an interesting technical vision of ceramics in search of new formats and new applications in the field of architecture. The designs [...]