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The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother (Spanish: La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada) is a 1972 novella by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
The House of the Spirits (Spanish: La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. [2] It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom.
Mango, Abuela, and Me is a 2015 children's book written by Meg Medina and illustrated by Angela Dominguez. It was first published on August 25, 2015 through Candlewick Press and was a 2016 Belpré Honor Book. [1] While writing the book Medina drew upon her experiences growing up with her grandmother Abuela Bena. [2]
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club.It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. [1] Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. [1] The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, [2] in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2) office building that was constructed in 1906 ...
In the 17th century, it belonged to the Monastery of Santa Teresa de la Orden de las Carmelas Reformadas and later, in the 18th century, it belonged to the Royal Military Order of Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redención de Cautivos de la Ciudad de México. In 1847, U.S. troops occupied the house, destroying the archives that were within.
Palace of Linares (), headquarters of Casa de América. Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana (Casa de América Prize for American Poetry) is a literary prize awarded by the Casa de América [] public consortium, "in order to stimulate new poetic writing in the Americas, with special attention to poems that open up or explore new perspectives and renovate themes".
Pablo de Santis, El enigma de París. Alonso Cueto, El susurro de la mujer ballena; 2008 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jorge Edwards, La Casa de Dostoievsky. Fernando Quiroz, Justos por pecadores; 2009 Mexico City, Mexico. Ángela Becerra, Ella, que todo lo tuvo. Pedro Ángel Palou, El dinero del diablo; 2010 Valparaíso, Chile