 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
Top 20 Best
Sellers Nielsen-ARS for the week ending on September 27
Among the
bestsellers the first four books are:
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Spanish Dictionary. Merriam-Webster Inc.
Merriam Webster.
Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary. Federal Street Press. B&N
Distribution Center.
La Isla bajo el Mar. Isabel Allende. Random House.
|
|
Experts from
the Americas and Europe see responses to economic crisis in culture
This
is the belief of a number of the delegates participating in the
“International Seminar on the Cultural Sector Today:
Opportunities, Challenges and Responses.”
The forum opened with the idea that one must look more carefully at the
growing cultural industries that are showing themselves to be important
contributors to the economies of the world.
|
|
Spanish, U.S.
institutions to launch online research journal
The International Research Center of the Spanish
Language, or Cilengua, and Columbia University will launch the online
magazine Interlineas, a scientific publication about language and the
humanities and open to researchers the world over.
|
|
Spanish Culture Minister Ángeles
González-Sinde met Sept. 14 at the New York Public Library
with Spanish-language book-industry experts in the United States.
Attending the meeting were representatives of prestigious companies
such as Barnes and Noble, Lectorum, Spanish Publishers LLC (a
consortium of publishers led by Urano), Mosaico, Baker and Taylor,
Bilingual Publications, the Reforma association and other public- and
private-sector agents.
|
|
|
|
Jorge Herralde compares
Bolaño with García Márquez
|
|
Fuentes transforms himself
into chronicler of Mexican drug trafficking in new novel
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Viggo Mortensen
Actor
Viggo Mortensen is a Renaissance man. Actor,
publisher, painter, photographer, musician. He is also always on the
move pursuing a new project. The last one is a publishing House called
Perceval Press.
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Noah
Gordon
As his
father’s second-born son, Josep Alvarez will not inherit his
family’s land in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa
Eulália. In love but unable to support a wife, he is caught up
in the meatgrinder of the Carlist War. How he survives a bloody
political intrigue and evolves into a maker of fine wines becomes a
story that Noah Gordon has described as his love letter to Spain.
|
|
Fidel
Y Raúl, mis hermanos
(The secret story)
Juanita
Castro
This is the account of a
woman that severed all ties, a woman that in 1964 joined the Cuban
exile in the United States. It is a story for Cubans and non-Cubans
alike the story Juanita Castro owed each and every one of us; a story
that had not been told until today.
|
|
Pasado Perfecto
(Mario
Conde)
Leonardo
Padura
Lieutenant Mario Conde is
suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the
middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious
disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the
Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days:
good-looking, brilliant, a ""reliable comrade'' who always got what he
wanted, including Tamara, the girl Conde was after.
|
|
Gabriel García Márquez:
una vida
(Gabriel García Márquez: a life)
Gerald
Martin
This superbly researched
biography is nothing short of a tour de force. Martin has for decades
been a pioneering scholar of Latin American literature in the
English-speaking world. Based on detailed research as well as personal
acquaintance with the subject, this is the most substantial
English-language biography written of García Márquez.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
