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	Ajuar funerario Iwasaki, Fernando , © 2004 This is a tribute to micro-narrative stories and terror literature in which Iwasaki succeeds in frightening us with a few sentences. (Peru). Reserve This Title
	Al morir Don Quijote Trapiello, Andrés , © 2004 Like the characters in Cervantes’ novel that have gone on with their lives after having been touched by the spirit of Don Quijote, so do we nowadays when we feel the call for freedom and fight against injustice. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	Aprendices de brujo Rodríguez, Antonio Orlando , © 2005 In the twenties, two young men from Bogota travel to La Habana to visit a legendary Italian diva. (Cuba). Reserve This Title
	Asombros de sombras: falsos rostros Zapata, César Augusto , © 2004 Very short stories revealing the interior world of the characters that allows us to see their real faces beneath the masks of everyday life. (Dominican Republic). Reserve This Title
	Azafrán García Marín, José Manuel , © 2005 Taking place in Andalucia in the year 1252 as Mukhtar ben Saleh, a wise man, walks the streets of Sevilla, Córdoba and Granada and witnesses how Islam, Christianity and Judaism interact. Also, the everyday life of booksellers and other tradesmen as well as the role of women in the society is depicted. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	Bajo un cielo púrpura Rico Góngora, Montserrat , © 2004 Taking place at the ending of the Middle Ages here is the story of three people, one Jew, one Christian and one Muslim, born at the same hour under a purple sky, sign of ill-fated cataclysm. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	La biografía difusa de Sombra Castañeda Veloz Maggiolo, Marcio , © 2005 In this novel myth and history are mixed to tell the legends, the relationship between Dominicans and Haitians, and the dissolution of the Trujillo dictatorship. (Santo Domingo). Reserve This Title
	El brazo Ureña, Arturo Emilio , © 2004 A story between dream and reality mixed with actual public Dominican characters whose hidden lives show that they may not be who they are believed to be. (Dominican Republic). Reserve This Title
	Un buen espejo Menjívar Ochoa, Rafael , © 2005 An unemployed television actor finds himself involved in the kidnapping and death of a rightist tycoon. These events shown on the news appear like theater although much bloodier and real than any play the actor has been in. (San Salvador). Reserve This Title
	El conciliador Zapata, José , © 2004 Short stories enhancing how reality is a product of fiction and not the contrary. The individual is submitted to the collective reality and as he tries to avoid solitude, his freedom is limited. (Peru). Reserve This Title
	Conjeturas de engaño Flores, Ronald , © 2004 The death of Dr. Eduardo Torres opens way to conjectures as to his obsession with the Nobel Prize in literature, his latest and unpublished novel and his function in the government. (Guatemala).
	Cuando besan las sombras Espinosa, Germán , © 2004 Two lovers are confronted with supernatural events in a house in Cartagena de Indias. The story of this experience is contrasted with the materialistic times in which we actually live. (Colombia). Reserve This Title
	Cuentos de mujeres Miller, Jeannette , © 2004 Very short stories about life, marriage, lies, etc. (Dominican Republic). Reserve This Title
	El detalle Somoza, José Carlos , © 2005 Here are the three short stories written by Somoza to this date: Planos, El Detalle and La Boca, relating three different sorts of obsessions. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	El diluvio de un beso Krauze, Ethel , © 2004 In a world where love and laughter and hope are prohibited, a man and a woman nevertheless are in love and lost in that world trying to find their way to where they can belong. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Ellos nos cuidan Delgado, Omar , © 2005 Here is the story of an exceptional character: Joaquín Edwards Bello, who is the author’s uncle and the great-grandson of Andrés Bello, a brilliant writer who was labeled as accursed and marginal. (Chile). Reserve This Title
	En clave de luna Nuñez Olivas, Oscar , © 2004 This novel relates the horrific crimes that perturbed Costa Rican society in the mid-Twentieth century, as well as giving an insider view of the running of a newspaper. (Costa Rica). Reserve This Title
	Las escaleras Castillo Rojas, Eduardo , © 2004 Very short melancholic stories about death, hardships, and misunderstandings. (Costa Rica). Reserve This Title
	La fatiga del vampiro Morella, José , © 2004 Bruno has to interview a well-known Argentinean writer who is dying. He will give Bruno his last novel, a confession that totally destroys his biography. What is fiction, what is reality? (Spain). Reserve This Title
	Guerra en la penumbra Alarcón, Daniel , © 2005 Short stories about wars that can be personal as well as national, intimate conflicts for marginalized people, who move and do not adjust, who fight and do not achieve anything. (Peru). Reserve This Title
	La Habana en un espejo Guillermoprieto, Alma , © 2005 The author went to Cuba in the 70’s to give ballet lessons. This book re-creates the atmosphere of the time and gives a vivid portrait of Cuban society in the midst of the revolution, and the role of art in it. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	El hombre que llegó a un pueblo Tizón, Hector , © 2005 A man arrives in a remote village where he will be sheltered as long as he accepts becoming a kind of Messiah. Are we then what others think or want us to be? (Argentina). Reserve This Title
	Imágenes letales Bonnefoy, Michel , © 2004 People will die when they see some images. To protect them the government imposes special lenses that filter reality. Here is a fable about manipulation to control others. (Chile). Reserve This Title
	Los informantes Vásquez, Juan Gabriel , © 2004 The journalist Santoro writes a book about the life of a German woman who arrived in Colombia just before the Second World War, but his father does not take it well. Here is the story of private and public betrayals during events that happened in Colombia in the forties. (Colombia). Reserve This Title
	El inútil de la familia Edwards, Jorge , © 2004 Here is the story of an exceptional character: Joaquín Edwards Bello, who is the author’s uncle and the great-grandson of Andrés Bello, a brilliant writer who was labeled as accursed and marginal. (Chile). Reserve This Title
	La inutilidad Lalo, Eduardo , © 2004 This is the adventure of a student in Paris who is not be able to adjust or to choose between two women, and who finally comes back to San Juan where he finds an even worse exile. (Puerto Rico). Reserve This Title
	La isla de la pasión Restrepo, Laura , © 2005 Taking place in 1908, a Mexican captain, his wife, and a group of soldiers and their families are guarding a small atoll against a possible French invasion. Forgotten there, they will try to survive in spite of diseases and desperation. (Colombia). Reserve This Title
	La Mara Ramírez Heredia, Rafael , © 2004 A novel that describes human migrations (here between Guatemala and Mexico) and all the problems that arise from them such as violence, degradation, and fear. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Los mundos que amo Chaviano, Daína , © 2004 A novel about experiencing various strange happenings that usually one would not relate for fear of being laughed at. (Cuba). Reserve This Title
	La noche de Morgana Benavides, Jorge Eduardo , © 2005 Short stories revealing the anomalies, both fearsome and absurd, which lie beyond the surface of everyday life. (Peru). Reserve This Title
	Nuestro GG en La Habana Gutiérrez, Pedro Juan , © 2004 Taking place when Graham Greene arrives in La Habana in 1955, this novel recreates a moment in Cuban history, as well as a reflection on the art of writing and the power of the written word. (Cuba). Reserve This Title
	La otra mano de Lepanto Boullosa, Carmen , © 2005 A very rich and literary book influenced by Cervantes’ Novelas Ejemplares, relating the adventurous life of María, a Flamenco dancer, who disguised as a man participates in the military expedition of the Saint League. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Polvo en el viento Lunar, Lorenzo , © 2005 The story of two siblings,Yuri and Yenia, one of them being accused of a murder he has not committed, and the collapse of their lives. (Puerto Rico). Reserve This Title
	Los rojos de ultramar Soler, Jordi , © 2005 The author relates the story of his own family and of those who lost the Spanish Civil War and had to emigrate. They will have to abandon Europe and settle down in Mexico to start all over again while fighting Franco from far away. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	El salón del ciego Victoria, Carlos , © 2004 Three short novels and three short stories depicting the human condition in Cuba or in exile. (Cuba). Reserve This Title
	Sandro (una historia clínica) Volonteri, Monica , © 2004 Here is a parody of the psychoanalytic reasoning through the story and the psychoanalysis of a patient. (Puerto Rico). Reserve This Title
	El señor Amarillo Curiel Rivera, Adrián , © 2004 Told as a fable whose characters are men and women, here are the voices of eight people who have been maimed by reality and who are expecting salvation from el señor Amarillo. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Si hubo una historia de amor Pérez Angosto, Octavio , © 2004 How long can love survive? The death of the tycoon Francisco Javier de Landa will free many of those whose lives were ruined by him. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	La trenza de la hermosa luna Montero, Mayra , © 2004 Taking place during the Haitian upheaval against Jean-Claude Duvalier, this book is a tribute to Haiti and the struggle of its people to achieve integrity and sovereignty. (Cuba). Reserve This Title
	Tu rostro mañana. Parte 2: Baile y sueño Marías, Javier , © 2004 This is the sequel of the adventures of Jaime or Jacobo or Jacques Deza, who is in the Secret Services and has the ability to see what people will do in the future. This is also a meditation on all the things we do without wanting and how we convince ourselves that they do not count or did not happen. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	El último sonido de caracol Casanova, Tina , © 2005 Recreating the world of the Taínos Indians in the heart of the mountains, this historical novel includes a present investigation about the disappearance of a famous archeologist in that area. (Puerto Rico). Reserve This Title
	La velocidad de la luz Cercas, Javier , © 2005 A story based on experiencing evil and guilt through a friendship that develops between a young aspiring Spanish novelist and a veteran of the Vietnam war who meet in a college in the Midwest. (Spain). Reserve This Title
	Viaje al norte Pérez Angosto, Octavio , © 2004 Six young people decide to go north because they cannot find work in their hometown of San Martin. At the same time the wealthy Gumaro is defeated in the elections by Dr. Artemio Sanchez, who is honest and will try to help develop San Martin. (Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Y en medio de nosotros la tele como un dios Celorio, Adela , © 2004 Do we live according to what we see on television or is television imitating our lives? Here is a humoristic novel about the influence of television on the Mexican middle-class.(Mexico). Reserve This Title
	Zorro Allende, Isabel , © 2005 Here is the real story of the legendary hero, Zorro, a.k.a. Diego de la Vega caught in between two worlds. (Chile). Reserve This Title
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