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1	Of love and shadows more books like this by Isabel Allende In a Latin American country under a military dictatorship, Irene Beltran, an upper-class journalist, and Francisco Leal, the photographer son of a Marxist professor, discover a hideous crime. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £5.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	My Invented Country more books like this by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Famed literary writer Allende uses a structure that mimics the workings of memory itself to speak compellingly to immigrants and anyone trying to retain a coherent life in a world of contradictions. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £8.14! \| first editions
3	The Painter of Battles more books like this by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) The internationally bestselling author of "The Club Dumas" and "The Queen of the South" delivers his most ambitious and profoundly affecting novel to date--a tale that, more than ever, confirms his ability as a writer of extraordinary literary power. see all copies from £6.32! new only from £10.22! \| first editions
4	Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda more books like this by Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) These humorous odes, written in short, brisk lines, address the banal and the everyday: tomatoes, artichokes, wrist watches, watermelons, salt, socks, wood. The odes represent Neruda's trend toward simplicity and directness later in his life. see all copies from £4.82! new only from £10.92! \| first editions
5	Cristina!: My Life as a Blonde more books like this by Cristina Saralegui, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) The charismatic host of the most-watched talk show in the world and head of a multimedia empire tells the inspirational story of her career, her success, and her secrets for getting it all and keeping it all. For the first time, the "Hispanic Oprah" reveals how she got where she is today, professionally and personally. photo insert. see all copies from £4.82! new only from £4.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	My Invented Country: A Memoir more books like this by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Famed literary writer Allende uses a structure that mimics the workings of memory itself to speak compellingly to immigrants and anyone trying to retain a coherent life in a world of contradictions. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £11.28! \| first editions
7	Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith more books like this by Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Octavio Paz's biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), considered the greatest lyric poet of Mexico's Golden Age, is also about the intellectual, political, and religious climate of 17th-century Mexico, and about the duty of the poet to rebel against the restrictions of orthodoxy. Paz has said, "Sor Juana is a mirror of me, a consciousness, ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £10.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Inez more books like this by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) A symphony conductor looks back in old age on his long and tumultuous relationship with an opera singer; their story is paired with the tale of a prehistoric couple. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £2.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Antigua and My Life Before more books like this by Marcela Serrano, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Josefa, a famous Chilean singer, tells the story of her friend Violeta's life when she hears that Violeta has been the victim of a violent act. As Josefa tells Violeta's story, she looks at her own life as well, and finds that she can make changes she thought were impossible. see all copies from £4.82! new only from £8.52! \| first editions
10	The Nautical Chart: A Novel of Adventure more books like this by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) A Spanish sailor named Coy becomes intrigued by a beautiful woman he encounters at a maritime auction. Her name is Tánger, and she is in search of a lost treasure that she believes lies at the bottom of the ocean off the coast. She draws Coy into her obsessive scheme to find it--and he, of course, falls in love with her. see all copies from £3.03! new only from £6.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly more books like this by Luis Sepulveda, Chris Sheban (Illustrator), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) A seagull who is near death after being caught in an oil slick searches with her dying breath for a safe place to lay her egg. She manages to fly to the balcony of an apartment building that is home to an honorable black cat named Zorba. Zorba promises the seagull that he will look after the egg, and promises her that he will teach the hatchling ... see all copies from £4.82! new only from £4.82! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Dogs of Paradise: Abel Posse; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden by Abel Posse, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Brilliant, profound and startlingly comic, here is a transformation of the old stories about the discovery of the Americas by distinguished Argentinian author Abel Posse. Ranging from the decadent Spanish court to the shores of the Mediterranean to the tropical Earthly Paradise, the Admiral of the Ocean Sea triumphantly finds the New World. see all copies from £4.82! first editions
13 view cover	The Valley of the Wolves more books like this by Laura Gallego Garcia, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Ever since Dana was a little girl, Kai has been her best friend and constant companion--even though she's the only one who can see him. Then the mysterious Maestro comes to her farm and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to study sorcery in the Valley of the Wolves. And Dana knows she must go, for the Maestro can see Kai too.... ... see all copies from £4.82! new only from £6.63! \| first editions
14	Pyramids of Glass: Short Fiction from Modern Mexico more books like this by David Bowen (Editor), Juan A Ascencio (Editor), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) From Mexico, 27 of the country's outstanding writers are brought together for a first anthology of short story fiction, translated for the first time in English. Features a preface by Ilan Stavans. see all copies from £5.12! new only from £9.53! \| first editions
15	Song of the Heart: Selected Poems by Ramon Lopez Velarde more books like this by Ramon Lopez Velarde, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Juan Soriano (Illustrator) Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his ... see all copies from £7.12! new only from £8.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	A Woman of Genius: The Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz more books like this by Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) This book, published in an English/Spanish bilingual format, reproduces the complete text of what has become one of the classic works of Spanish American literature. Well known as a poet during her lifetime, the nun's bold confrontation with high church authority, followed shortly by her death during an epidemic while tending to her sister nuns, ... see all copies from £5.07! new only from £110.25!
17 view cover	The Sum of Our Days more books like this by Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily correspondence she shared with her mother in Chile, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant as its author. She recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric ... see all copies from £10.60! new only from £10.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Senora Honeycomb more books like this by Fanny Buitrago, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) The heroine, dissatisfied with her philandering husband (who never gets around to deflowering her) in Colombia, goes to Spain to work in a bakery, where cakes with an erotic motif are made. She remains a virgin, but finds out a lot about life, love and seduction. Eventually returning to her husband, she is disappointed to find he has become fat ... see all copies from £4.82! new only from £5.58! \| first editions
19 view cover	Out of the Volcano: Portraits of Contemporary Mexican Artists more books like this by Margaret Sayers Peden, Carole Patterson (Photographer) In words and photographic portraits, the authors bring together forty-eight of Mexico's most acclaimed artists -- among them Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz -- in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative powers of a nation. see all copies from £4.82! new only from £14.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Burnt Water more books like this by Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) see all copies from £4.82! new only from £43.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus more books like this by Jaime Manrique, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Edith Grossman (Translator) Five years after the publication of the internationally acclaimed volume of poems, My Night with Frederica Garcia Lorca (in its third printing), Jaime Manrique, called by the Washington Post Book World, "The most accomplished gay Latino writer of his generation", delivers his second volume of poems in a bilingual edition. Tarzan, My Body, ... see all copies from £4.82! new only from £5.24! \| first editions
22 view cover	Mexican Writers on Writing more books like this by Margaret Sayers Peden (Editor) The pieces collected in "Mexican Writers on Writing" present a vibrant cross-section of Mexican authors' thoughts on the written word, from Carlos Fuentes's instructional Decalogue, to Bernardo de Balbuena's eloquent dissertation on the beauty of poetry, to Octavio Paz's analysis of the essence of translation. From the literature of colonialism ... see all copies from £9.56! new only from £13.04!
23 view cover	Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Poemas more books like this by Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Juana Margaret Sayers Peden, acclaimed for her translations of Fuentas, Neruda, Quiroga, and Paz, has made an admirable selection of poems and two excerpts from Sor Juana's theater. An introduction and notes are provided. see all copies from £29.80!
24 view cover	An Ark for the Next Millennium more books like this by Jose Emilio Pacheco, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Francisco Toledo (Illustrator) If a picture paints a thousand words, a poem can evoke a thousand images. In this illustrated, bilingual volume of poetry, two of Mexico's most prominent artists, poet and painter, join their words and images of animals to create a work of startling insight and beauty. José Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes ... see all copies from £5.42! first editions
25	Siren and the Seashell: And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry by Octavio Paz more books like this by Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Lysander Kemp (Translator) see all copies from £5.43! new only from £22.88! \| first editions

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