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Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a... -
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman 9781611854428
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022'Full of rebellious comedy and vitality... Goldman's autobiographical immersion answers the urgent cry of memory... [He] is a natural storyteller -... -
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.42The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico... -
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman 9780802123770
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802123770Author Francisco GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic... -
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157553Author Francisco GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? by Francisco Goldman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government... -
Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood by Angela Naimou 9780823278725
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth... -
Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood by Angela Naimou 9780823264766
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $78.68Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth... -
Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho 9781476784977
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.23Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers' League of... -
Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures by Amit Thakkar 9781138084483
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the formation of masculine identities in a range of representative and landmark texts, fictional and... -
Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country by Leila Guerriero 9780062661074
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062661074Author Leila GuerrieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse by April Shemak 9780823233557
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $47.45Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and... -
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 9781529155341
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024‘Sparkling’ NEW YORK TIMES‘Magnetic’ IRA GLASS‘Fierce’ TIME'In García Márquez, people in love experienced bouts of vomiting, psychosomatic fevers and real... -
1000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel 9780349702001
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed.' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism,... -
La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico by Jon Sack
Booksplease Price: $16.54The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become internationally notorious for violence, as drug cartel battles and official corruption have colluded to produce more murders... -
In Search of Klingsor by Jorge Volpi 9781841153896
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44Already an international bestseller, 'In Search of Klingsor' traces an American physicist's thrilling search to unmask Hitler's chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb... -
Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala Under General Efrain Rios Montt, 1982-1983 by Virginia Garrard-Burnett 9780199844777
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $36.86Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Rios Montt incited a Mayan holocaust:... -
Checkpoint Zipolite: Quarantine in a Small Place by Belen Fernandez 9781682193068
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.07"When I first committed to three full months in El Salvador, the feeling that I was signing up for the equivalent of marriage and reproduction was assuaged only by the awareness that, come March... -
The Invention of Exile by Manko Vanessa 9781780746104
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39Bridgeport, Connecticut: 1913. Austin Voronkov is a Russian immigrant working in a factory. When he falls in love with Julia - the daughter of his landlady - the American Dream feels within reach... -
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi 9781529960600
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping story of love and war - the debut novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author'A major world writer' New York TimesIn 1955, a... -
The Novel of Human Rights by James Dawes
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $40.89The Novel of Human Rights defines a new, dynamic American literary genre. It incorporates key debates within the contemporary human rights movement in the United States, and in turn influences the... -
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel by Jennifer Harford Vargas 9780190642853
Booksplease Price: $85.42An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship... -
Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work by Joseph B. Entin 9780472055197
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.66For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and... -
Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work by Joseph B. Entin
Booksplease Price: $81.59For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and... -
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century by Daniel Hernandez 9781416577034
Booksplease Price: $14.50This book recounts Hernandez's electrifying journey through the far-off slums, glittering fashion parties and rapturous religious rituals of one of the world's most exciting megacities - the seething... -
Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Carolina De Robertis 9780349010106
Booksplease Price: $23.45Letters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our best-loved writers, including Junot Diaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng,... -
Inside Siglo XXI: Inside Latin America's Largest Immigration Detention Center Beln Fernndez 9781682193556
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant,... -
Beauty Salon by 9781646050734
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $12.54Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large,... -
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation by Greg Grandin
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged,... -
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation by Greg Grandin 9780822324584
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $90.16Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged,... -
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen 9780007276851
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.27'Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife...' Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double. ... -
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli 9781566893541
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.26Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014"An extraordinary new literary talent." The Daily Telegraph"In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this... -
Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption by Jacob R. Wheeler 9780803233621
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.69"An adoption professional once told me, 'At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemala's. At its worst, there is none worse.'"-from the foreword by Kevin Kreutner In Between Light and... -
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free Hector Tobar 9781444755411
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've... -
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel by Jennifer Harford Vargas 9780190079673
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.42An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship... -
The Impostor by Edgard Telles Ribeiro 9781954276154
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimaciesIn "The Impostor," a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt... -
Loop by Brenda Lozano
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Winner PEN Translates Award (UK)Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors' surgeries, and... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285958
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.80"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly... -
Childish Literature Alejandro Zambra 9781804271100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a 'state of attachment', or 'under the influence' of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide for novice parents,... -
Mrs. Murakami's Garden Mario Bellatin 9781646050291
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $11.79From the groundbreaking author of Beauty Salon, The Large Glass, Jacob the Mutant, Mario Bellatin delivers a rousing, allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art...