Author: Bettina Restrepo
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-03-08
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061953423
ISBN-13: 9780061953422

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Keywords: novel, delirium
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0385519907
ISBN-13: 9780385519908

Internationally acclaimed for the virtuosity and power of her fiction, Laura Restrepo has created in Delirium a passionate, lyrical, devastating tale of eros and insanity. Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn’t know what has happened during his absence, and in his search for answers, he gradually unearths profound and shadowy secrets about her past. On one level, Delirium reads like a detective story, as the reader pieces together information to

Author: Jaime Restrepo
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: spanish, todos, para, internet
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0307274837
ISBN-13: 9780307274830

¡Aprenda todo lo que usted necesita saber acerca del Internet!Cómo utilizar los navegadores más populares: Internet Explorer, Safari, NetscapeCómo funciona el correo electrónico, incluyendo los programas MS Outlook® y Hotmail Cómo usar el mensajero instantáneo, inclusive para hacer llamadas por el Internet

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Alfaguara
Keywords: heroes, spanish, demasiados
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-05-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1603966420
ISBN-13: 9781603966429

Lorenza and Mateo feel lost in their own history. He cannot understand why his father, Ramon an Argentine militant in the resistance against Videla s dictatorship decides to disappear without a trace. She cannot find the words to explain to her son why his father suddenly became a threat. In searching for Ramon while reconstructing the fragments that make up their past, these two characters, at times close partners, at times opponents, return to Buenos Aires. Scouring the city, Lorenza talks to Mateo about the life she and Ramon led during the dictatorship. Quieting the pain, fear and loss, th

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, errante, multitud, dispossessed, tale
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 006072370X
ISBN-13: 9780060723705

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: ’Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.’ But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Rayo
Keywords: spanish, oscura, novia
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060514310
ISBN-13: 9780060514310

Laura Restrepo, una de las autoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana, ha sabido construir una sensual mezcla de realismo y de imaginación narrativa que ha convertido sus libros en bestsellers internacionales. Su último libro, La Novia Oscura, es una divertida y conmovedora historia de amor. A travé de una serie de entrevistas, la reportera que protagoniza esta novela, da vida a un singular grupo de personajes: cazadores de fortuna, jefes guerrilleros, obreros de refinería, y prostitutas. Junto con el narrador, la reportera intenta descifrar la misteriosa e impulsiva vida de

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Rayo
Keywords: spanish, novela, una, pasion, isla
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060816201
ISBN-13: 9780060816209

En 1908, el capitán mexicano Ramón Arnaud y su esposa adolescente parten hacia un pequeño atolón en el Pacífico, conocido por los exploradores españoles como la Isla de la Pasión. Acompañado de once soldados y sus familias, el capitán tiene órdenes de defender la isla ante la improbable invasión francesa. Con su peligroso arrecife de coral y una laguna estancada, la isla es amenazadora e inhóspita y sus nuevos habitantes deben luchar para sobrevivir. Logran crear una comunidad viable, pero entre la agitación política en su país y los comienzos de la primera Guerra Mundial, se ve