"Elvia Alvarado tells the story of her life and the life of the people of Honduras. Read it and understand the struggle against tyranny of the poor. Read it and act."--Alice Walker[...]
If your Mexican food experiences include canned refried beans, quick rice mixes, or frozen burritos for the microwave, A Gringo's Guide to Authentic Mexican Cooking will change the way you think about Mexican food forever. Mad Coyote Joe, author of The Sonoron Grill, and host of the popular TV show [...]
Stranded in the world's driest desert, buried beneath the snow by Army Commandos, a near death experience with a rampant cow, robbed by mystical gypsies, dodging Molotov cocktails, and teaching English to natives whilst choking on tear gas; this is the story of one person's journey through an extrem[...]
WINNER OF THE MAURICIO ACHAR PRIZE FOR FICTION
Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal imm[...]
There is a small god-forsaken truck-stop between El Paso and Chihuahua in Mexico called El Sueco - The Swede. The name was given by Pancho Villa, in the same way as he had named other places in Mexico after his comrades in arms, this one for Ivor Thord-Gray, author of Gringo Rebel, who joined the Me[...]
'...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melis[...]
'...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melis[...]
Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1994, Stephanie C. Kane's The Phantom Gringo Boat has been recognized as a ground-breaking piece of ethnological research. This second edition contains a new preface by the author and, reprinted in an Appendix, two supplementary essays on gender[...]
Liborio tiene que dejar Mexico, pues en Mexico solo tienes las putizas para sobrevivir. Por eso me vine para aca, porque ya estaba hasta el culo de andarme limpiando los mocos en el polvo; mordiendole las entranas a la tierra y cruza, como tantos otros, el Rio Bravo para llegar a la tierra prometida[...]
J. Jes s Esquivel, autor de La D.E.A. en M xico, ha conseguido develar los entresijos del narcotr fico en Estados Unidos al sumergirse en la lectura de incontables expedientes judiciales, adem s de entrevistar a informantes clave. De San Francisco a Nueva York y de la l nea divisoria hasta Chicago, [...]
De er en håndfull mennesker i et stort og farlig land, på jakt etter en skjult skatt. Misjonærdatteren Pauline, gjetergutten Rico og El Gringo alias Morgan Kane. Mot dem står Federales. Og de er alle truet av en felles fiende: en blodtørstig horde apacher på krigsstien. Med bonusmateriale.[...]
En dag får Clay Allison ett brev från Veracruz, Mexiko, som säger att han ska bli rikligt belönad, men det är oklart vad han behöver göra. Han bestämmer sig trots det att söka upp den som skickade brevet. Men Mexiko är ingen vänlig plats för amerikaner och Clay Allison kommer att ställa[...]
Dramatik av en Nobelpristagare
Den stillsamme och inkännande berättaren Harry Martinson tog avstånd från all våldsam dramatik på scenen. Men "ordets teater", radiospelet, väckte på 30-talet hans sedvanliga nyfikenhet. I rask följd presenterade han tre radiopjäser: Gring[...]
På gropiga grusvägar reser författaren omkring uppe i Anderna. Högplatån är omgiven av snöklädda toppar, och vid sidan av vägen går lamadjur. De övriga I bussen är indianer.
Författaren och journalisten Karl Nordlander är gringon, främlingen, betraktaren och voyeuren. H[...]