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Author: Jim Ewing
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Juan Jose is especial. He speaks Spanish at home and English at school. Juan Jose likes enchiladas verdes and he likes pepperoni pizza.

Author: Juan José Millás
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Book of the Year” selection “Begins as entertaining slapstick, subtly metamorphoses into fable. . . . As [the narrator’s] vivid imaginary world fuses with reality this deceptively ethereal novel advances toward a dark and startling finale.” —Wall Street Journal Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family. Every thread of the plot is ingeniously tied together, creating a potent admixture of parable, love story, and thriller. Millás masterfully reveals the everyday as innately surreal as he renders the unbelievable tangible and the trivial fantastical, and full of dark humor. Juan José Millás is the recipient of Spain’s most prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. A regular contributor to El País, Millás has also won many awards for his journalism. He is the author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction as well as over a dozen novels, including From the Shadows, the first of his novels to be published in North America. He lives in Madrid.

Author: Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.

Author: Juan José Millás
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 194265894X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driver After Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment’s air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf is the man’s name, which also happens to be the name of the character in Puccini’s Turandot and the bird Lucía received on her tenth birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When he moves out of her building, Lucía becomes obsessed, driving through Madrid and searching for him on every corner, meeting intriguing people along the way. What follows is a phantasmagoria of coincidence, betrayal, and revenge, featuring Millás’s singular dark humor. Let No One Sleep is a delirious novel in which the mundane and extraordinary collide, art revives and devastates, and identity is unhinged by the treacherous forces of contemporary society.

Author: Juan José Arreola
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292792190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This biting commentary on the follies of humankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing—at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan José Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. Confabulario total, 1941–1961, of which this book is a translation, combines three earlier books—Varia invención (1949), Confabulario (1952), Punta de plata (1958)—and numerous later pieces. Although some of the pieces have a noticeably Mexican orientation, most of them transcend strictly regional themes to interpret the social scene in aspects common to all civilized cultures. Arreola’s view is not limited; much of his sophistication comes from his broad, deep, and varied knowledge of present and past, and from his almost casual use both of this knowledge and of his insight into its meaning for humanity. His familiarity with many little-known arts and sciences, numerous literatures, history, anthropology, and psychology, and his telling allusions to this rich lode of fact, increase the reader’s delight in his learned but witty, scalding but poetic, satire.

Author: Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson
Publisher: OR Books
ISBN: 1682192008
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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This short, intense book exposes life inside the largest, most violent gang in the world, Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13. Right in the heart of El Salvador’s capital San Salvador, anthropologist Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson observes firsthand an escalating cycle of brutality between MS-13 and its sworn enemies from Barrio 18 as it becomes a war fought on a professional scale with grenades and machine guns. For the better part of a year, d´Aubuisson was embedded in one of the cells of MS-13, where he learned its moral codes, rules, legends, and contradictions. His journey into the heart of the gang is guided by an enigmatic character, Destino, a veteran leader of MS-13. After many conversations with Destino, a strange kind of friendship emerges between the two, and the anthropologist understands not only the origin of the gang and its war with Barrio 18 but the deep-seated reasons for the regional violence. The book culminates in one of the most violent acts ever in an area that has seen more than its share: a full-scale attack on a public bus with thirty-two passengers on board. Fourteen people were killed and twenty-eight wounded. Almost all the principal characters in this book end up dying: some are killed in the war, while others fall to the state security forces. Those that do escape the war are imprisoned, exiled or murdered by their own gang. This is a true testimony of life inside a wild gang, in a neighborhood governed by abandoned boys. Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson is a Salvadoran socio-cultural anthropologist committed to understanding violence in Central America. His uncle was one of Latin America’s most notoriously brutal military officers during the 1980s.

Author: Juan José Arévalo
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The Shark and the Sardines is a scathing allegorical short story by Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (1904-1990), who was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala (1944-1951). As a country that had seen a series of dictatorships following its independence from Spain, Arévalo’s 1944 election is considered by historians to be the first fair and democratic election in Guatemala’s republican history. Arévalo’s administration was marked by unprecedented relatively free political life during his six-year term. An educator and philosopher, he understood the need for advancement in individuals, communities, and nations by practical means. “It appears to be a truism today that anything touching upon US-Latin American policy is bound to end either in histrionics or hysteria, whether of the Left or Right. And former president of Guatemala, Juan Jose Arevalo’s The Shark and the Sardines is no exception. Free flowing, full of rhetoric at once both surly and suave, astream with shockers, statistics and stilettos, it promulgates what the blurbs dubb a “poetically tragic fable”, depicting in iridescent black and white the tortured heart beating south of our border, wherein Uncle Sam emerges as the Shark and the mestiza have-nots, the poor Sardines.”—KIRKUS Review

Author: Juan José Saer
Publisher: Serpents Tail
ISBN: 9781846686917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.”—Washington Times “Haunting and beautifully written.”—Independent on Sunday In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when the group is attacked by Indians. The Witness explores the relationship between existence and description, foreignness and cultural identity. Juan José Saer was born in Argentina in 1937 and is considered one of Argentina's leading writers of the post-Borges generation. He died in 2005.

Author: Joaquín Dicenta
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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¡Desbloquea el misterio y la pasión con ""Juan José: Drama en tres actos y en prosa"" de Joaquín Dicenta! En este drama en tres actos, Joaquín Dicenta nos lanza a un mundo de intriga y suspense, donde la pasión y el amor se ven enfrentados a la autoridad y la moralidad. La historia sigue la vida de Juan José, un joven apasionado que se ve atrapado en un dilema moral cuando se enamora de una mujer casada. A medida que leas, descubrirás cómo Juan José lucha por mantener su amor secreto, mientras que su amada lucha por liberarse de su matrimonio aburrido. El drama culmina en un enfrentamiento emocionante entre la pasión y la moralidad, que pondrá a prueba la capacidad de Juan José para elegir entre su amor y su conciencia. Dicenta nos presenta un mundo de personajes complejos y contradictorios, donde la pasión y el amor se ven mezclados con la ambición y la codicia. A medida que avanza la trama, descubrirás secretos y mentiras que cambiarán para siempre el rumbo de las vidas de los personajes. Con su estilo directo y sencillo, Dicenta nos sumerge en un mundo de drama y suspense, donde la emoción es palpable en cada página. "Juan José" es un clásico del teatro español que ha sido reestrenado en numerosas ocasiones y sigue siendo una obra maestra que no pierde su poder emocional. A medida que te adentras en este mundo emocionante, prepárate para experimentar una variedad de sentimientos: compasión, indignación, sorpresa y tensión. "Juan José" es una obra que te hará reflexionar sobre la naturaleza del amor y la moralidad, y te hará recordar por qué este drama es considerado un clásico del teatro español. No te pierdas esta oportunidad de explorar uno de los dramas más importantes del teatro español. Consigue tu copia ahora y ¡inicia un viaje emocionante por el mundo de la pasión y el drama!

Author: Juan José Saer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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An Italian magician exposed as a charlatan flees to Argentina where he marries a woman eager to help him experiment in telepathy. Unfortunately marriage chores and a pregnancy get in the way.