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Zigzagger: Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780810120990
Booksplease Price: $21.08Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Munoz's collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant... -
Futbol by Ilan Stavans 9780313375156
Booksplease Price: $68.62This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely... -
The Secret Recipe by Ilan Stavans 9781728486437
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCenter for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of the Year.Book InformationISBN... -
Dictionary Days by Ilan Stavans 9781555974190
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.58A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable... -
The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Ilan Stavans 9780271084701
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.90In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been... -
Lazarillo de Tormes by Ilan Stavans 9780393938050
Booksplease Price: $18.65Based on Ilan Stavans' new translation which accurately captures the verve of the original, this Norton Critical Edition includes: an introduction and explanatory annotations; contextual materials... -
Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816536078Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Angelitos: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans 9780814254592
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254592Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.482015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired... -
The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories by Ilan Stavans 9780810151925
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.55Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
El Iluminado: A Mystery of Santa Fe Ilan Stavans 9780826369185
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century... -
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America by Ilan Stavans
Booksplease Price: $14.22An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six... -
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Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another by Ilan Stavans 9780822324003 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $12.60It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the... -
Don Quixote of La Mancha: (in Spanglish) by Miguel de Cervantes 9780271082301
Booksplease Price: $20.10Publisheado originalmente en two partes en 1605 y 1615 y often considereado "the first novela moderna," Don Quixote de Miguel de Cervantes es indudablemente el libro mas influencial del canon... -
The Plain in Flames by Juan Rulfo 9780292743854
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books-the novel Pedro Paramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953)... -
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Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories by Calvert Casey 9780822321538 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection... -
Don Quixote of La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes 9780271082318
Booksplease Price: $19.75Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often considered "the first modern novel," Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is undoubtedly the most influential work in the Spanish literary... -
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca 9780393918151
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.75Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition tells the unforgettable story of a sixteenth-century soldier turned explorer who, along with three other... -
All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda
Booksplease Price: $35.79Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship... -
The Storyteller's Death: A Novel by Ann Davila Cardinal 9781728250779
Booksplease Price: $19.67From International Latino Book Award-winning author Ann Davila Cardinal comes a gorgeously written family saga about a Puerto Rican teenager who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.01Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching... -
The Song of the Cid: A Dual Language Edition with Parallel Text by Anonymous 9780143105657
Booksplease Price: $16.35One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, "The Song of the Cid" recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar both - 'Mio... -
The Remains by Margo Glantz
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora Garcia travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.The way you hold a cello, the way... -
Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi has crafted this... -
Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination by Steven W. Bender 9780814798874 [USED COPY]
RRP: $84.42Booksplease Price: $8.44Although the origin of the term "greaser" is debated, its derogatory meaning never has been. From silent movies like The Greaser's Revenge (1914) and The Girl and the Greaser (1913) with villainous... -
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira 9780811216302
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.75An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was... -
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony by Nelson A. Denis
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.26In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.83El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these...