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El
viaje a la ficción
(A
Flight Into Fiction)
Mario Vargas
Llosa
The
subject of fiction and life is a constant that, since distant times,
has been expressed through literature. Yet in the work of no other
modern author does it have the force and inventiveness as it does in
the short stories of Juan Carlos Onetti. In this essay, Vargas Llosa
examines how Onetti used fiction to create an alternate reality a
reality in which the answer to our daily defeats is fleeing to a
fantasy world.
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En busca de los doce
apóstoles
(The Search for the Twelve
Apostles)
William
Steuart McBirnie
Best-selling author Dr.
William Steuart McBirnie uncovers the fascinating untold histories of
Christ's apostles and their activities, offering readers a snapshot of
the life of each apostle. McBirnie begins where the Acts of the
apostles leaves off. He brings these astonishing men to vivid life,
with their dedication, humanity, zeal, and triumphant faith.
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 El
juego de la lotería (Playing Loteria)
René Colato Laínez
A
young boy is going to Mexico to visit his grandmother, and he is
concerned. After all, she speaks very little English, and his Spanish
is vestigial. His mother assures him that all will be well and that he
will come home speaking Spanish. His insecurities begin to vanish when
he discovers his grandmother's job. She is a canta in a
lotería booth, a game similar to Bingo.
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 Cielo
y Tierra (Heaven
and Earth)
Nora
Roberts
Roberts popularized the
romance trilogy, and here she offers up the second installment of her
newest trilogy, a conventional saga about three witches who must right
the wrongs of their ancestors in order to save their homeland, Three
Sisters Island. Ceremonial candles, iris petals and a sprig of rosemary
set the scene for magic and romance, but it will take more than mood
lighting and witchcraft to lend an air of amiability to the novel's
heroine
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Mexican
publishing firm to open new bookstores in Washington, Buenos Aires
Mexican
state-funded publishing company Fondo de Cultura Económica
said it plans to open two new bookstores in the coming months, one in
Buenos Aires and another in Washington.
FCE’s
general manager, Consuelo Sáizar, said the Washington
bookstore, which will open later this year, is the publishing
company’s first in the United States and will be located at
the headquarters of the Inter-American Development Bank. The bookstore
will be 144 square meters in area and have space for displaying 12,000
copies
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Jordi Cervera,
Marta Gené awarded Edebé literature prizes
Screenwriter
Marta Gené and journalist Jordi Cervera were honored in the
17th edition of the Edebé children’s and adolescent
literature prize for debut works in the fantasy and crime novel genres,
respectively.
Cervera won in
the adolescent category for his “La muerte a seis
veinticinco” (Death at Six Twenty-Five), a crime novel that
he said he decided to set in the Barcelona suburb of Badalona because
“there can be stories everywhere; there’s no need
to relocate to exotic places.” “La
muerte a seis veinticinco” tells of the investigation into
the murder of the family of a basketball player for
Badalona’s DKV Juventut at the hands of young member of the
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Spanish
Authors in America
Spanish Authors
in America is a program aimed toward the promotion and divulgation of
Spanish writers in the USA. The plan is sponsored by Spain's Ministry
of Culture, the New York Public Library (NYPL), the Spanish Association
of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) and coordinated by America Reads Spanish
(ARS) and the Instituto Cervantes (New York). The program has
been extremely successful with its presentations of Spanish writers in
the US. The program brings best seller Spanish authors to New York and
Miami to share their works and writing experiences with the public.
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2008
US Best Sellers in Spanish
A
long list of Spanish-language works were published in 2008 and in
general they were very well received by U.S. Hispanic readers. The
following is a list by categories, partial and subjective as such lists
tend to be, of the best Spanish-language books published in 2008.
One
of the outstanding works in the autobiography category was Salvador
Sánchez Cerén’s “Con
sueños se escribe la vida. Autobiografía de un
revolucionario salvadoreño” (Life is Written with
Dreams: Autobiography of a Salvadoran Revolutionary), published by
Ocean Sur. In that work, guerrilla leader Sánchez
Cerén (or “Leonel González,” his
nom-de-guerre) revisits the different periods of the revolutionary
struggle in El Salvador, combining those accounts with personal
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 Stephenie
MeyerWriter
There are books
that sink their teeth into the reader and don’t let go until
the very end. Such are those of 34-year-old bestselling American author
Stephenie Meyer, who until five years ago was a housewife and mother of
three with no literary preparation aside from the books she had
devoured throughout her life.
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Applause
Learning Resources
Applause Learning Resources carries a complete line
of Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Latin foreign language
products.
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| ARS ON THE ROAD |
ARS at ALA Midwinter Meeting
For the third consecutive
year, America Reads Spanish (ARS) has participated, with great success,
in the American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting held
in Denver, CO, from Jan 23–28, 2009.
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| INTERVIEW
LOUNGE |
 Javier Molea
Spanish-language director of
the McNally Jackson Books bookstore in New York City.
Javier Molea, who was born in
Montevideo in 1969, earned a degree in humanities and for 15 years
served in different areas of the publishing market in Uruguay and
Argentina. He has worked in bookstores, English- and Spanish-language
book distributors and as editor and consultant for publishing companies.
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