Dónde vas Alfonso Reyes

This English translation of Entre letras y ladrillos (Bilingual Press, 1996), an autobiographical novel written in the best of Miguel Mendez's baroque and conceptually intense style, evokes one of the most remarkable life histories of this century. Using his own "status as a Mexican Indian, wetback, and Chicano" as a yardstick, he takes us on a personal and collective voyage that culminates on a remarkable day in 1986 when he exchanged his job of full-time construction worker for that of full professor at the University of Arizona.

This revised edition incorporates plays accessible to students at high novice and intermediate levels, while retaining dramas that challenge and heighten the proficiency of the most advanced students. Studying and performing these plays will help students to read, understand, and speak Spanish with greater confidence. The cultural approach is priceless.

Sustitución [término cuyo significado bíblico se entiende solo a través del sacrificio] es una novela que nos presenta la historia de un hijo que se niega a desenterrar la verdad tras la muerte de su padre. En medio, presenciamos los inicios de una relación amorosa que no termina de echar raíces pues está viciada por cuestionamientos de un mundo que aún no nace y otro que no termina de morir. En Sustitución, una carrtera atraviesa el Midwest estadounidense como símbolo de dos viajes: uno físico y el otro interior con un final unívoco; pues, como en las tragedias griegas, la...

He must marry or lose control of his empire. But no ordinary wife would do for Australian tycoon Alex Valente. Emotional entanglements were to be avoided; physical attraction was essential. Struggling designer Olivia Cannington certainly fit both of his requirements… most especially the latter. And she was in such desperate need of his funds, perhaps the beauty would even agree to the second part of his marriage ultimatum: give Valente an heir…within a year.