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  • The Dance of the Demons

    by Esther Singer Kreitman ...
    Translated by Maurice Carr ...
    A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original Yentl and "an important contribution to the vastly neglected genre of feminist Yiddish literature" ( Booklist).In this autobiographical novel—originally published in Yiddish as Der Sheydim Tanz in 1936—Esther Kreitman lovingly depicts a world replete with rabbis, yeshiva students, beggars, farmers, gangsters, seamstresses, and socialists as seen ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans ...
    “Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy…. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to 'Emilio Renzi': a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Piglia’s prowess as it ... Read more

    $14.50 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Visa

    A Novel

    by Juan de Recacoechea, Ilan Stavans ...
    Translated by Adrian Althoff ...
    " American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering." —George Pelecanos, award-winning author/producer of The WireArmed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert ...
    A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Popol Vuh

    A Retelling

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resurrecting Hebrew

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesHere is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Chicano For Beginners

    by Maceo Montoya ...
    As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as "El Movimiento" that galvanized the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Explain a Few Things

    Selected Poems

    by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans ...
    "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Don Quixote of La Mancha (Illustrated)

    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Ormsby, Ilan Stavans ...
    Don Quixote of La Mancha has been called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel. One might even say that this tragi-comic work is far more than a novel: It is a manual for life, with lessons on how to love, dream, age, and be a friend. It encourages engagement with the essential questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my responsibility toward others? What ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facundo

    Or, Civilization and Barbarism

    by Domingo F. Sarmiento ...
    Translated by Mary Peabody Mann ...
    Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl

    Nahuatl Poems

    by Nezahualcóyotl ...
    Translated by Ilan Stavans ...
    From award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler's timeless verses.A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualcóyotl was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Born in 1402, the ruler—whose name means ‘hungry coyote’ in the Uto-Aztecan language of Nahuatl—led the city-state of Texcoco through its age of enlightenment. His four-decade ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Antitherapies

    by Jacques Fux ...
    Series series Jewish Latin America Series
    Golems and dybbuks and Nazis, oh my! Jacques Fux, Brazil’s answer to Philip Roth, offers a remarkably original and entertaining work of autofiction that is essential reading for those interested in the Jewish experience in Latin America.Winner of Brazil’s prestigious São Paulo Prize, Jacques Fux’s brilliant literary debut novel unveils an outrageously entertaining Portrait of the Artist as a Young ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD

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