Author: Marcos McPeek Villatoro
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: earth, fire
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1996-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558850945
ISBN-13: 9781558850941

This moving navel captures the trials of El Salvador during the first three decades of this century, setting the stage for the tragedies of the last twenty years. Fast-paced, yet poetic, this epic novel is a monument to the people of El Salvador and a page turner that invites no interruption.

Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: murders, juarez, blood, desert
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2005-03-31
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1558854460
ISBN-13: 9781558854468

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Alicia Gaspar de Alba, March 31, 2005, ISBN 1-55885-446-0, Clothbound, $23.95 An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US / Mexico border It’s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa

Author: Alejandro Morales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: plagues, doll, rag
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1991-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558851046
ISBN-13: 9781558851047

a novel akin to Latin American magical realists

Author: Américo Paredes
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: literature, hispanic, modern, pioneers, shadow
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-01-31
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558852301
ISBN-13: 9781558852303

Antonio Cuitla has a date with destiny, But it is not the showdown the once-fierce revolutionary expects. Is Antonio’s showdown with a would-be assassin, with the cunning aristocrat Don José, or with Death itself? This novel of taut suspense and psychological conflict is a page-turner that defies the reader to put it down.

Author: Mario Bencastro
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: cathedral, shot
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1996-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 155885164X
ISBN-13: 9781558851641

Neither propagandistic nor partisan view of the civil war in El Salvador, this novel is remarkable for its sensitivity and poetic vision of the tragic and inhuman events that polarized both that nation and the international community.

Authors:Denise Chavez, Linda Feyder,
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: women, hispanic, plays, myth, shattering
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1992-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1558850414
ISBN-13: 9781558850415

The plays, written between 1986 and 1991, have been performed or read in theaters across the United States. They shatter myths and create a broader, freer space for women’s cultural development.

Author: Alirio Diaz Guerra
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: literary, heritage, hispanic, recovering, guevara, lucas
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1558853901
ISBN-13: 9781558853904

A tragic novel of one immigrant’s downfall and disgrace in New York City This is the English translation of Lucas Guevara, the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigré Díaz Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other Spanish-language narratives produced in this country would take up over the course of the twentieth century. Freshly arrived from the pristine countryside of South America, Lucas quickly becomes a victim of the modern Metropolis, its treacherous rogues,