Canario Blanco

Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen "La Coja" Santos is a renowned local dancer who has long maintained an affair with the great Agustín, the married director of her troupe. An angry rivalry is sparked when she begins a passionate new liaison with...

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Cuando Gabriela, una hermosa mulata analfabeta, llega a Ilhéus, ciudad del estado brasileño de Bahía, huyendo del campo y de la miseria, se desencadena un divertido cúmulo de pasiones humanas en un abigarrado marco rebosante de sabores, colores y olores. La sugerente protagonista, su amante el pintoresco y pragmático Nacib , las singulares hermanas Reis y el sempiternamente enamorado profesor Josué son sólo los principales personajes de GABRIELA, CLAVO Y CANELA, inolvidable novela del escritor brasileño Jorge Amado (1912-2001) que, empapada de un vitalismo y una sensualidad...

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates religious-cult murders in a monkey preserve in North Carolina. She learns of a planned massacre in Quebec, where the novel's climax comes during a snow storm. By the author of Déjà Dead.