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  • The Scorched Garden

    by Juan Mayorga ...
    Translated by Nick Darke ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A group of inmates has been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War. For forty years their only contact with the outside world has been with an elderly doctor. And then a young medical student arrives and unveils their histories and madness…Juan Mayorga's play The Scorched Garden was first performed in this English translation by Nick Darke at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Way to Heaven

    by Juan Mayorga ...
    Translated by David Johnston ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    The heart of Europe. 1942. Children playing, lovers' tiffs, a deserted train station and a ramp rising towards a hangar. This is what you can see, but what should the Red Cross representative report say?Way to Heaven has previously been produced at the Teatro Mara Guerrero, Madrid by the Centro Dramatico Nacional. A production of this English translation opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Lucky Me

    by Lawrence Schimel ...
    Illustrated by Juan Camilo Mayorga ...
    ★**“This book stands out with its sensitive and positive portrayal of a visually impaired character and the normalized support of others. An essential purchase for all libraries.” — School Library Journal**Bruno's home is a bit different, but he wouldn't trade it for the world.Bruno's friend Sanjay is lucky: He doesn’t have to share his room (well, except with a pet iguana), and he can leave his ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • New Ecuadorian Short Fiction

    by Brian Parker, Monica Ojeda, Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, Natalia García Freire, Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Mafe Moscoso, Juan Montaño, Esteban Mayorga, Wayra Ana Velásquez, Augusto Rodríguez, Shaskya Hurtado Zambrano ...
    Just outside Ecuador's capital, a grand stone pillar marks the equator. It's called the Mitad del Mundo, the Middle of the World. By accident, it sits several hundred meters from the line it claims to mark. Tourists visit anyway.Like a lot of what reaches outsiders about Ecuador, the monument is a kind of agreed-upon fiction: convenient, photogenic, not quite true. The literature being written in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Woes of the True Policeman

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. ... Read more

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  • No Way Home

    A Dancer's Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World

    by Carlos Acosta ...
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    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
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    by Paulo Scott ...
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  • Children of Fate (Hechos Consumados)

    by Juan Radrigán ...
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    Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and marginalised in General Pinochet's Chile. 2013 is the fortieth anniversary of the year Pinochet seized power in a vicious coup. ... Read more

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  • Reputations

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure ... Read more

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