In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she c…
La casa de Bernarda Alba constituye un exponente más de la capacidad de Federico García Lorca para aunar la tradición y la vanguardia por medio de un teatro simbólico de índole muy personal que le sit…
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosely based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small tow…
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws t…
Una tarde de otoño, cuando la noche llama a las puertas de un remoto faro de la costa vasca, el cuerpo de una mujer aparece a los pies de la torre de luz. El asesino se ha llevado la grasa de su abdom…
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature. The book narrates the author’s own experience of dispossession …
Egunaren zurrunbiloa noiz apalduko daude Ana, Rakel eta Migel, patxaran gozotan hirurei eusten dien sarea ehuntzen segitzeko. Idi buru bat dute zelatan —gorputz gaixo baten itzala ilunpean—, eta dista…
