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2010

Vargas Llosa Mario Title : Il Caporale Lituma sulle Ande
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario
Publisher: Einaudi

A Naccos, desolato cantiere minerario situato in una zona impervia delle Ande peruviane, il caporale della Guardia Civil Lituma e il suo fedele aiutante, il giovane Tomás, indagano sulla misteriosa scomparsa di tre manovali, svaniti improvvisamente nel nulla. Da tempo la cordigliera è teatro delle azioni terroristiche di Sendero Luminoso, movimento rivoluzionario di ispirazione maoista, e appare subito assai probabile che i tre uomini siano stati rapiti e forse uccisi dai guerriglieri. Disordinata accozzaglia di giovani, donne e persino bambini, armati di pietre, randelli, coltelli, essi sottopongono i loro prigionieri a processi sommari in nome della giustizia proletaria. Tuttavia il caporale Lituma non si ferma ai primi indizi e alle conclusioni più ovvie. Giorno dopo giorno, caparbiamente, si immerge nella vita quotidiana degli sperduti villaggi per comprenderne l'umanità dolente di poveri contadini e minatori. E scopre cosi un mondo inesplorato di credenze antiche e riti ancestrali, radicati profondamente nel cuore degli indigeni. Ed è in questo modo che il caporale raggiunge infine, dopo una serie di colpi di scena, la sconvolgente verità che avrebbe preferito ignorare.
€ 12,00     Scontato: € 11,40

Vargas Llosa Mario Title : Chi ha ucciso Palomino Molero?
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario
Publisher: Einaudi

Una morte scomoda mette in moto una spirale di inquietanti interrogativi nel Perù degli anni Cinquanta. La vittima è Palomino Molero, un giovane aviere trovato senza vita e con i segni evidenti di atroci torture. Un caso come molti nel clima di incertezza politica e sociale di quegli anni. Per molti un caso da archiviare senza strepito, un 'incidente' senza importanza né conseguenze. Decisi a far luce sull'omicidio, il tenente Silva e il suo aiutante Lituma ricostruiscono i brandelli di una impossibile storia d'amore tra la vittima e la figlia di un colonnello in un mondo in cui dominano reticenze e contraddizioni, e dove il potere e la corruzione riescono a trasformare la verità in tante verità diverse.
€ 9,00     Scontato: € 8,55

Vargas Fred; Baudoin Title : I Quattro fiumi
Author: Vargas Fred; Baudoin
Publisher: Einaudi

Una borsa rubata a un vecchio straccione che pare una cornucopia, visto tutto quel che contiene. Il colpo della vita. Specie per due ladruncoli sprovveduti come Grégoire e Vincent. Due ragazzi che non hanno idea del guaio in cui, con quel furto, sono andati a cacciarsi. Una graphic novel che restituisce ed esalta la visionarietà della Vargas dando anche finalmente un volto a personaggi come Adamsberg e Danglard. Grégoire, perennemente sui roller, e Vincent, col sedere sempre incollato alla motocicletta, sono due ragazzi della banlieue parigina come tanti. Che un giorno commettono un grave errore. E rubano la cosa sbagliata. Ovvero la borsa di un vecchio. Dentro, ci trovano un mucchio di soldi. Ma anche molti altri strani oggetti: una scatoletta con dei denti umani frantumati, fialette rosso sangue e qualche tarocco. Quella stessa sera Vincent viene assassinato nella sua casa. E Grégoire, stupidamente, pensa di potersela cavare fuggendo sui pattini. Ma quel delitto, riflette Adamsberg, sa molto di gesto rituale e potrebbe anche segnare il ritorno dell'assassino soprannominato l'Ariete. Se fosse cosí, Grégoire avrebbe le ore contate.
€ 17,00     Scontato: € 16,15
2009

Vallejo Cesar, Eshleman Clayton (EDT), Vargas Llosa Mario (FRW), Kristal Efrain (INT) Title : The Complete Poetry
Author: Vallejo Cesar, Eshleman Clayton (EDT), Vargas Llosa Mario (FRW), Kristal Efrain (INT)
Publisher: Univ of California Pr

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision--perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature--in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.
€ 41,90

Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN) Title : The Chalk Circle Man
Author: Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN)
Publisher: Penguin Group USA

The debut mystery in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Adamsberg series-now available for the first time in the United States

Fred Vargas 's Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries are a sensation in France, consistently praised for their intelligence, wit, and macabre imagination. This first novel in the series introduces the unorthodox detective Commissaire Adamsberg-one of the most engaging characters in contemporary crime fiction.

When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods around Paris, Adamsberg is alone in thinking that they are far from amusing. As he studies each new circle and the increasingly bizarre objects they contain-empty beer cans, four trombones, a pigeon's foot, a doll's head-he senses the cruelty that lies within whoever is responsible. And when a circle is discovered with decidedly less banal contents-a woman with her throat slashed-Adamsberg knows that this is just the beginning.


€ 14,30

Fred Vargas Title : This Night's Foul Work
Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: VINTAGE


€ 12,75

Vargas Llosa Mario Title : Appuntamento a Londra
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario
Publisher: Einaudi

Londra. Qualcuno bussa alla porta della camera d'albergo di un uomo d'affari peruviano. E Raquel, che dice di essere la sorella di un suo vecchio amico. I due iniziano a parlare, ma a poco a poco i colpi di scena si susseguono e l'identità della donna si fa sempre più ambigua, sfuggente, inquietante, fantasmatica. La realtà sembra intrecciarsi alle invenzioni mentali, ai desideri, ai sensi di colpa. Il nuovo lavoro teatrale di Vargas Llosa è una pièce sul mistero dell'amicizia, su come ognuno costruisce la propria identità e sui rituali e i malefici della sessualità nella vita segreta delle persone.
€ 10,00     Scontato: € 9,50

Vargas Fred Title : L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri
Author: Vargas Fred
Publisher: Einaudi

Da quattro mesi i marciapiedi di Parigi riservano una sorpresa apparentemente innocua: grandi cerchi blu tracciati con il gesso, e al centro una serie di oggetti stravaganti: un trombone, una pinzetta, un vasetto di yogurt, una candela... I giornalisti indagano per sfamare l'interesse dei lettori e gli psicologi si dividono tra chi grida al maniaco, e chi ipotizza la burla. Adamsberg, però, non trova nulla di divertente nell'escalation dei cerchi: la sua fine psicologia di conoscitore del male gli lascia intuire che dietro l'apparente stramberia si nasconde qualcosa di morboso. E ben presto i fatti gli danno ragione: un'altra alba e un altro cerchio su un marciapiede, ma stavolta, al centro esatto, un corpo di donna. Parte così una corsa contro il tempo per fermare un assassino del quale si ignora letteralmente tutto.
€ 11,50

Vargas Fred Title : Un Luogo incerto
Author: Vargas Fred
Publisher: Einaudi

Adamsberg, con l'impagabile Danglard, si trova, un po' annoiato, in Inghilterra per una riunione della Grande Europa poliziesca: si tratta nientemeno che di 'armonizzare i flussi migratori' con i colleghi di ventitré Paesi. Ma dove c'è Adamsberg tutto può accadere. E il ritrovamento delle diciassette scarpe - o come dice il preciso Danglard, 'diciassette piedi, otto paia e un piede singolo' - spinge il nostro 'spalatore di nuvole' a percorrere un'altra Europa: quella dove dopo quasi trecento anni la stirpe di Dracula non ha smesso di infestare il mondo. Tra Londra, i dintorni dell'Hauts-de-Seine e la Serbia, attraverso il 'nero tunnel' che conduce alla tomba di Peter Plogojowitz, riesumato nel 1725 col sospetto di essere un vampiro, l'indagine poliziesca si intreccia all'esplorazione di quel continente ignoto che è la follia umana. Humour, fantasia visionaria, erudizione, colpi di scena, dialoghi strepitosi, capacità di indagare nelle pieghe più profonde dell'anima si fondono in un intreccio in cui Adamsberg fa i conti con il mito e la realtà del vampiro. E con un passato che sembra tornato per rovinargli la vita.
€ 18,50

Vargas Davide Title : Racconti di qui
Author: Vargas Davide
Publisher: Tullio Pironti

Un uomo cammina su un marciapiedi in una controra assolata. L'uomo è attratto dalla strada. Le crepe, le cicche, i tappi di bottiglie ingoiati come fossili, i dislivelli del cammino, la ragnatela come di vetro fratturato che si apre nell'asfalto. Dove sta andando? In nessun luogo, non c'è più un luogo vero dove quell'uomo possa andare, perché lui sta andando qui. È cosi che si muove il protagonista dei 'Racconti di qui', un uomo risucchiato dal mondo e convinto che prestando più attenzione alle cose esse finiranno per rivelargli il loro segreto [...] e le racconta come se narrasse la vita di un personaggio fatto di asfalto, cemento, fogne, pontili, facciate, crepe, discariche, buche, piazze, sabbie, vie, vicoli, mare: inseguendo nella fisionomia delle cose ferite che gridano quella verità che le fisionomie umane ammutolite o complici tacciono.
€ 10,00

Vargas Lucila Title : Latina Teens, Migration, and Popular Culture
Author: Vargas Lucila
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc


€ 97,50
2008

Machuca Bernardo de Vargas, Lane Kris (EDT), Johnson Timothy F. (TRN) Title : The Indian Militia And Description Of The Indies
Author: Machuca Bernardo de Vargas, Lane Kris (EDT), Johnson Timothy F. (TRN)
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and Inca Empires had long since fallen by 1599, but Vargas Machuca argued that many more Native American peoples remained to be conquered and converted to Roman Catholicism. What makes his often shrill and self-righteous treatise surprising is his consistent praise of indigenous resistance techniques and medicinal practices.

Containing advice on curing rattlesnake bites with amethysts and making saltpeter for gunpowder from concentrated human urine, The Indian Militia is a manual in four parts, the first of which outlines the ideal qualities of the militia commander. Addressing the organization and outfitting of conquest expeditions, Book Two includes extended discussions of arms and medicine. Book Three covers the proper behavior of soldiers, providing advice on marching through peaceful and bellicose territories, crossing rivers, bivouacking in foul weather, and carrying out night raids and ambushes. Book Four deals with peacemaking, town-founding, and the proper treatment of conquered peoples. Appended to these four sections is a brief geographical description of all of Spanish America, with special emphasis on the indigenous peoples of New Granada (roughly modern-day Colombia), followed by a short guide to the southern coasts and heavens. This first English-language edition of The Indian Militia includes an extensive introduction, a posthumous report on Vargas Machuca’s military service, and a selection from his unpublished attack on the writings of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas.


€ 89,10

Vargas Llosa Mario, Grossman Edith (TRN) Title : The Bad Girl
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario, Grossman Edith (TRN)
Publisher: Picador USA

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007

"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--
The New York Times Book Review

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and  disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.


€ 16,10

Vargas Llosa Mario, Lane Helen R. (TRN) Title : The War of the End of the World
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario, Lane Helen R. (TRN)
Publisher: Picador USA

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost.

In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.


€ 19,60

Vargas Llosa Mario Title : Wellsprings
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa—Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual—answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In “Four Centuries of Don Quixote,” he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel—a fiction about fiction whose ebullient prose still questions the certainties of our stumbling ideals. In recounting his illicit, delicious discovery of Borges' fiction—“the most important thing to happen to imaginative writing in the Spanish language in modern times”—Vargas Llosa stands in for a generation of Latin American novelists who were liberated from their sense of isolation and inferiority by this Argentinean master of the European tradition.

In a nuanced appreciation of Ortega y Gasset, Vargas Llosa recovers the democratic liberalism of a misunderstood radical—a mid-century political philosopher on a par with Sartre and Russell, ignored because “he was only a Spaniard.” And in essays on the influence of Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin, the author finds an antidote to the poisonous well of fanaticism in its many modern forms, from socialist utopianism and nationalism to religious fundamentalism. From these essays a picture emerges of a writer for whom the enchantment of literature awakens a critical gaze on the turbulent world in which we live.


€ 16,10

Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN) Title : This Night's Foul Work
Author: Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN)
Publisher: Penguin Group USA

A chilling new mystery from France?s #1 bestselling writer

Twice awarded the International Dagger by the Crime Writers? Association, Fred Vargas has earned a reputation in Europe as a mystery author of the first order. In This Night?s Foul Work, the intuitive Commissaire Adamsberg teams up with Dr. Ariane, a pathologist with whom he crossed paths twenty years ago, to unravel a beguiling mystery that begins with the discovery of two bodies in Paris?s Porte de la Chapelle. Adamsberg believes it may be the work of a killer with split personalities, who is choosing his or her victims very carefully. As other murders begin to surface, Adamsberg must move quickly in order to stop the ?Angel of Death? from killing again. Intricately plotted and featuring Vargas?s wry humor, This Night?s Foul Work will keep readers guessing up to the final page.


€ 15,20

Laforet Carmen, Vargas Llosa Mario (INT), Grossman Edith (TRN) Title : Nada
Author: Laforet Carmen, Vargas Llosa Mario (INT), Grossman Edith (TRN)
Publisher: Modern Library

One of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semiautobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures Carmen Laforet’s feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe.

“Laforet vividly conveys the strangeness of Barcelona in the 1940s, a city that has survived civil war only to find itself muted by Franco’s dictatorship…The spirit of sly resistance that Laforet’s novel expresses, its heroine’s determination to escape provincial poverty and to immerse herself in ‘lights, noises, the entire tide of life,’ has lost none of its power of persuasion.” — The New York Times Book Review

“That this complex, mature and wise novel was written by someone in her early 20s is extraordinary….But after six decades, this first novel has lost none of its power and originality, and we are fortunate to have it in this fine translation.”-- The Washington Post, chosen as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“Nada does indeeed recall Sartre and Camus, but it is fresher and more vibrant than either, and with its call to intuition and feelings rather than intellect, it cuts deeper….[A] mesmerizing new translation….a beautiful evocation of the tidal wave of late adolescent feeling….[Laforet] wrote Nada when she was only 23, yet the book resonates with frightening maturity, sadness and depth…a work of genius.” — Los Angeles Times

“A brilliantly subtle book whose power lies in what goes unsaid…”Nada” is a skillfully written, multifaceted novel, and its eerie relevance to today’s political climate and social attitudes is difficult to ignore.” -- The San Francisco Chronicle

“Laforet’s moody and sepulchral debut novel…has been given new life by acclaimed translator Grossman….Andrea’s narration is gorgeously expressive, rippling with emotion and meaning…fans of European lit will welcome this Spanish Gothic to the States with open arms and a half-exasperated, “What took you so long?”–Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“This Modern Library edition should be a keeper.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Carmen Laforet finds new life with this beautiful translation…dazzling in its approach…Laforet’s talent in addressing complex familial and social issues us nothing short of amazing…her wiser-than-thou nature and clever handling of bitter dialogue [are] the mark of a truly gifted writer…..a timeless work of art.” -- The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star

“Nada is neither moralist, nor prolix, unlike most other Spanish literature of the time and before. This is a modern voice, philosophically and stylistically, talking to us in freedom from the darkest hours of the victory of fascism….remarkably sophisticated.” -- The Independent

“[A] remarkable achievement…Nada’s work is sui generis, a gothic horror story which deserves the widest possible readership.” — The Sunday Herald

“Edith Grossman’s translation makes the rich, dense descriptions....sound perfectly natural in English; not a beat is missed, not an adjective misplaced. Let us hope that her fine, readable version will enable Nada to achieve, in the English-reading world, the perennial popularity of a great twentieth-century novel.” -- TLS

€ 16,10

Fred  Vargas Title : Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: VINTAGE

Commissaire Adamsberg is in Quebec on a training mission, when he is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman. The murder fits a pattern of killings that has happened in the past; Adamsberg must go on the run from the Canadian police a
€ 13,45

Fred  Vargas Title : Seeking Whom He May Devour
Author: Fred Vargas
Publisher: VINTAGE

Eccentric and wayward Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of an Alpine village's history and the disturbing presence of wolves. This is an early case for the engaging French detective, but appearing in paperback in
€ 12,75

Vargas Llosa Mario; Morino A. (cur.) Title : La guerra della fine del mondo
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario; Morino A. (cur.)
Publisher: Einaudi

Alla fine dell'Ottocento, nel Nordest del Brasile, appare una strana figura di santo e di profeta - 'le ossa sporgenti e gli occhi ardevano di un fuoco perpetuo' - che attira intorno a sé migliaia di persone sbandate e vinte dalle ingiustizie della vita. Così comincia la storia memorabile della piccola e remota Canudos, solitario avamposto contro l'immenso Brasile e incontaminato luogo di pace, che sarà raso al suolo e cancellato dal nuovo governo repubblicano. Raccontando 'cose attuali, concrete, quotidiane, inevitabili come la fine del mondo e il giudizio universale', Vagas Llosa ricrea uno dei più tragici episodi della storia dell'America Latina, facendone un romanzo e una saga di forte intensità, specchio realistico e insieme fantastico delle crudeltà, speranze e illusioni dell'uomo.
€ 15,50

Vargas Fred Title : Nei boschi eterni
Author: Vargas Fred
Publisher: Einaudi

Il fantasma di una monaca del Settecento che sgozzava le sue vittime non fa paura al commissario Adamsberg, ma tutto il resto sì. Da un momento all'altro sprofonda in un mondo che sembra tornato al Medioevo, dove si straziano i cervi dei boschi normanni, si profanano cadaveri di vergini per estrarne misteriose sostanze, e le pozioni magiche assicurano la vita eterna, a costo di orrendi delitti. Mentre un rivale che arriva dal più lontano passato, e che parla in versi, gli vuole rubare tutto. Un puzzle inestricabile, fatto apposta per far smarrire la ragione a chiunque. Ma non a uno 'spalatore di nuvole', come Adamsberg. Anche se, ancora più delle altre volte, arrivare alla verità vorrà dire riuscire a strapparsi un pezzo di cuore...
€ 12,50

Vargas Fred Title : Un po' più in là sulla destra
Author: Vargas Fred
Publisher: Einaudi

Tre storici allo sbando e uno sbirro in disarmo: tornano gli stralunati protagonisti di 'Io sono il Tenebroso' e 'Chi è morto alzi la mano'. Mentre è in appostamento su una panchina Louis Kehlweiler, detto il Tedesco, trova per terra un frammento di osso umano. Una traccia perduta dentro la città. All'apparenza ormai definitivamente. Eppure Kehlweiler la segue, con i suoi due aiutanti, Marc e Mathias. La segue con ostinazione e ossessione fino ad arrivare in un piccolo villaggio della Bretagna. Qui trova un collezionista di macchine per scrivere, fanatico di qualsiasi meccanismo ben oliato, un sindaco pavido e untuoso che non vuole problemi, un losco individuo ferocemente razzista, pronto a tutto pur di diventare sindaco lui. Con la pazienza e la fredda ferocia dell'indagatore, Kehlweiler toglie la maschera a tutti e ricostruisce la storia, le sue follie, le sue mostruosità. Inseguendo le tracce. Come chi scrive. Pubblicato per la prima volta in Francia nel 1996, il romanzo si distingue per il linguaggio terso, lo stile ironico e incisivo, la capacità di prendere per mano il lettore fino alla rivelazione finale, e l'accuratezza nei dettagli più sorprendenti, che deriva all'autrice dalla passione medievalista e dalla professione di zooarcheologa. Da qui il gusto per la detection, per le impronte, le tracce, le piccole cose senza importanza che permettono di dedurre, per una qualche 'associazione di idee', la soluzione di un caso.
€ 17,00

Vargas Llosa Mario Title : Conversazione nella «Catedral»
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario
Publisher: Einaudi


€ 17,50
2007

Crouser Michael (PHT), Vargas Llosa Mario (INT) Title : Los Toros / Bulls
Author: Crouser Michael (PHT), Vargas Llosa Mario (INT)
Publisher: Twin Palms Pub

“Courage, nonetheless, is not truly the heart and soul of bullfighting. Its very center may well be fear. Fear-the most human of emotions-the matador must keep in check, channel, gradually overcome and forget as his knowledge and his art progressively dominate his antagonist and subject him to his will, to his game and to his spell, until he succeeds in creating the illusion that all danger has evaporated, that what began as a challenge of blood and death has become a dance, ceremony, sculpture, theater, ritual.” --Mario Vargas Llosa from the introduction
€ 69,30

Marcos Subcomandante Insurgente, Pena-Vargas Canek (EDT), Ruggiero Greg (EDT) Title : The Speed of Dreams
Author: Marcos Subcomandante Insurgente, Pena-Vargas Canek (EDT), Ruggiero Greg (EDT)
Publisher: City Lights Books


Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon—which Publishers Weekly described as “strong as dignity and as subtle as love”—Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of Mexico, from searing critiques of the US war in Iraq, to clandestine radio broadcasts from the jungles of Chiapas, here is an amazing selection of writing that gives voice to the literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer and rebel.

€ 16,10

Vargas Llosa Mario, Lane Helen R. Title : Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario, Lane Helen R.
Publisher: Picador USA

Mario Vargas Llosa's classic autobiographical novel about a forbidden love affair, a manic radio scriptwriter, and the hilarious trials of an aspiring fiction writer.
 
Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.
 
The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older. The two begin a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas hold the city's listeners in thrall, and who chooses young Marito as his only confidant as he slowly goes insane.
 
Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of 1982 by the New York Times.

€ 17,90

Vargas Llosa Mario, Grossman Edith Title : Death in the Andes
Author: Vargas Llosa Mario, Grossman Edith
Publisher: Picador USA

In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and to cope with their homesickness, Tomás entertains Lituma nightly with the sensuous, surreal tale of his precarious love affair with a wayward prostitute. His stories are intermingled with the ongoing mystery of the missing men.

Death in the Andes is an atmospheric suspense story and a political allegory, a panoramic view of contemporary Peru from one of the world's great novelists.


€ 16,10

Vargas Zaragosa Title : Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Author: Vargas Zaragosa
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation.

The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights.

He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.


€ 34,00

Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN) Title : Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Author: Vargas Fred, Reynolds Sian (TRN)
Publisher: Penguin Group USA

A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, ?a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell?s Chief Inspector Wexford? (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon?s Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri?s Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin?s robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas?s Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novels that are ?truly original . . . like nothing else in contemporary fiction? (The Sunday Times, London), beginning with Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand.


€ 15,20

Fischer John Martin, Kane Robert, Pereboom Derk, Vargas Manuel Title : Four Views on Free Will
Author: Fischer John Martin, Kane Robert, Pereboom Derk, Vargas Manuel
Publisher: Blackwell Pub

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate.

  • Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism
  • The first half of the book contains each philosopher's explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other's arguments, in a lively and engaging conversation
  • Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion
  • Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophy series

€ 44,90


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