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1) Gabriel García Márquez: the early years

Author

Stavans, Ilan

Pub. Date

2010.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's...

2) The FSG book of twentieth-century Latin American poetry: an anthology

Language

English

3) The poetry of Pablo Neruda

Author

Neruda, Pablo

Pub. Date

2003.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

4) The Norton anthology of Latino literature

Pub. Date

2011.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

5) Collected stories: One night in Brazil to The death of Methuselah

Author

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Series

Library of America volume 151

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

6) Encyclopedia Latina: history, culture, and society in the United States

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

7) Collected stories: Gimpel the fool to The letter writer: Gimpel the fool & other stories, The Spinoza of Market Street, Short Friday & other stories, The séance & other stories

Author

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Series

Library of America volume 149

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

8) Collected stories: A friend of Kafka to Passions

Author

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Series

Library of America volume 150

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

9) And we came outside and saw the stars again: writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic

Pub. Date

2020.

Edition

First Restless Books trade paperback edition.

Language

English

Description

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Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.

10) New World: young Latino writers

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

11) Gabriel García Márquez

Series

Critical insights

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

12) The Oxford book of Jewish stories

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

13) Becoming Americans: four centuries of immigrant writing

Pub. Date

[2009]

Language

English

14) Quixote: the novel and the world

Author

Stavans, Ilan

Pub. Date

[2015]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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"In Quixote, eminent cultural commentator Ilan Stavans explores the indefatigable knight's impact on our world across a spectrum of languages, politics, genres, art forms, and modes of entertainment"--Dustjacket.

15) Spanglish: the making of a new American language

Author

Stavans, Ilan

Pub. Date

2003.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

16) Jewish literature: a very short introduction

Author

Stavans, Ilan

Series

Very short introductions volume 682

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

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"An in-depth, thorough exploration of modern Jewish literature from 1492 to the 21st century, rotating around the concept of "aterritoriality" to appreciate the diasporic journey Jews have embarked on across geographic and linguistic spheres from 1492 to the present. At the centre of it are canonical figures like Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Bruno Schulz, Anne Frank, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Grace...