Achy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins, Days of Awe, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir, and has since translated Junot Diaz, Rita Indiana, Wendy Guerra, and many others. In 2014, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation.
16 Электронные книги Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas: We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?
Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just …
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Achy Obejas: Memory Mambo
Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her familys laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weir …
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€25.35
Achy Obejas: The Tower of the Antilles
Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction! Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize! Included in The Rumpus’s ‘What to Read When You’ve Made it More Than Halfway Through …
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€15.99
Rita Indiana: Tentacle
Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the oce …
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€9.59
Achy Obejas: Ruins
A true believer is faced with a choice between love for his family and the Cuban Revolution. “Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas’s Ruins is a breathtaker. Obejas writes li …
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€16.99
Achy Obejas: Havana Noir
“[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” —Orlando Sentinel To mos …
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€19.28
Rita Indiana: Papi
"Papi’s there, around any corner, " says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of Papi. "But you can’t sit down and wait for him cuz that’s a longer and more painful death." Living …
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€23.19
Madeline Ashby & Hannah Lillith Assadi: Llévanos a un lugar mejor
Como la entidad filantrópica más grande de la nación dedicada exclusivamente a la salud, la Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ha trabajado durante más de 45 años para mejorar la salud y el bienestar de …
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Neal Pollack: Chicago Noir
“If ever a city was made to be the home of noir, it’s Chicago. These writers go straight to Chicago’s noir heart” (Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist and New York …
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€19.28
Bernardo Fernandez & Eduardo Antonio Parra: Mexico City Noir
Latin American noir at its finest. “[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City.”—Mostly Fiction Book Review …
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€19.28
Lee Child: The Nicotine Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles)
Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine’s scintillating alter egos. “Sixteen tributes to America’s guiltiest pleasure . . . Even confirmed anti- …
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€15.99
Carlos Velázquez: The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories
‘A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality.’ —NPR Book …
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€14.99
