Francisco Goldman
1) Say her name
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In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married the beautiful young writer Aura Estrada. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.
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In this New York Times Notable Book, an award-winning writer undertakes his own investigation into the murder of a Guatemalan bishop. Two days after releasing a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand Guatemalan civilians, Bishop Juan Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in his garage. The victim was the country's leading human rights activist, but the Church quickly...
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A devout woman finds herself adrift in late 19th century Central America in this novel of "deep imagination, stylistic verve, and psychological acuity" (The Washington Post).
Set in late nineteenth century Central America and New York City, The Divine Husband tells the story of María de las Nieves Moran, whose brief career as a nun is ended in the wake of revolution. Forced to make her way in the secular world, María is surrounded by an unforgettable...
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America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Estaban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Estaban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens.
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Tras la muerte de su joven esposa, Francisco Goldman encuentra una inédita estrategia para superar la pena: aprender a manejar en la ciudad de México. La estrategia tiene un efecto secundario inesperado: una crónica magistral de la enrevesada actualidad mexicana: desde los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez y la represión de los campesinos de Atenco hasta el asesinato de los jóvenes del bar Heavens, triste anuncio de Ayotzinapa. Pero también da...
7) Monkey Boy
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Como una tardía ventisca invernal, los recuerdos se abalanzan sobre la mente de Francisco (Frankie) Goldberg, protagonista de esta historia, mientras viaja en tren de Nueva York a Boston, su ciudad natal. Obligado a regresar a Norteamérica como consecuencia de una feroz persecución política, la marcada distancia que ha construido respecto a su familia se desvanece súbitamente. Ahora va al encuentro de su madre, su hermana, un amor escolar interrumpido...
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"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
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Grove Press
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[2014]
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English
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"Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico ... [and] sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces ... [resulting in] an account of one of the...
10) Marinero raso
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Editorial Océano de México, S.A. de C.V
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2017.
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Esteban, un nicaragüense exguerrillero sandinista es llevado, junto con otros catorce hombres, desde América Central con la promesa de trabajar a bordo de un buque de carga. Sin embargo, el Urus es un oxidado armatoste abandonado en un aislado muelle de Brooklyn. La tripulación vive meses en condiciones terribles: atrapados, sucios, enfermos y humillados; víctimas de su propia pobreza y la trapacería de los demás. Cuando Esteban abandona el...
11) La llorona
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Criterion collection volume 1156
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[2022]
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Español
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A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
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2018.
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Español
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Twelve journalists and writers examine politics and art, music and baseball, present and past, and offer a snapshot of the particular crossroads at which Cuba finds itself.
Un libro de crónicas cubanas de la mano de doce de los más prestigiosos periodistas y escritores de nuestro tiempo que abarca política y arte, música y béisbol, presente y pasado, y nos ofrecen una excepcional instantánea de la particular encrucijada en la que se encuentra...
