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Tan Lejos de Dios
Penguin Group US 1999; US$ 16.00Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with... more...
The Guardians
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00After several days of waiting and with an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel?s gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo?s gangbanger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Though... more...
My Father Was a Toltec
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.95Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country?s most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and... more...
I Ask the Impossible
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as ?una storyteller de primera ,? and by Barbara Kingsolver in The Los Angeles Times as ?impossible to resist,? returns to her first love?poetry?to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual world. With the... more...
Carmen La Coja
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.00Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion , this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen , set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive... more...
Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 158.00The Squatter and the Don
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 23.00?The Squatter and the Don, like its author, has come out a survivor,? notes Ana Castillo in her Introduction. ?The fact that it has resurfaced after more than a century from its original publication is a testimony to its worthiness.? Inviting comparison to Uncle Tom?s Cabin , María Amparo Ruiz de Burton?s illuminating political novel is also an... more...
The Underdogs
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 6.99The Underdogs Mariano Azuela Ten years after its publication in a small El Paso paper, The Underdogs achieved worldwide renown as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution. It tells the story of Demetrio Macías, a modest, peace-loving Indian, who is forced to side with the rebels to save his family. In the course of battle, he becomes... more...
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