From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.

"He [the author] draws us into a labyrinth of disparate lives whose connections become clear only gradually ... a diabetic teenage girl in Lisbon, her father, an officer in the pre-revolutionary armey and a secret policeman."--Jacket.

The alliance between ants and dinosaurs created a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it. A satirical fable and ecological warning.

Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a denizen of slum taverns, unashamedly bisexual, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and secretive in his leadership of a select group of writers, Saenz mixed the mystical and baroque with the fantastic, the psychological, and the symbolic. In masterly translations by two poet-translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, Saenz's strange, innovative, and wildly lyrical poems reveal a literary legacy of fierce compassion and solidarity with indigenous Bolivian cultures and with the destitute, the desperate, and the disenfranchised of that unreal city, La Paz. In long lines, in odes that name desire, with Whitmanesque anaphora, in exclamations and repetitions, Saenz addresses the reader, the beloved, and death in one extended lyrical gesture. The poems are brazenly affecting. Their semantic innovation is notable in the odd heterogeneity of formal and tonal structures that careen unabashedly between modes and moods; now archly lyrical, now arcanely symbolic, now colloquial, now trancelike. As Saenz's reputation continues to grow throughout the world, these inspired translations and the accompanying Spanish texts faithfully convey the poet's unique vision and voice to English-speaking readers.

Recibida desde su publicaci n en 1946 como una obra maestra, El se or Presidente inaugura en Latinoam rica un g nero que muy pronto dej abundante descendencia: la novela del dictador. Miguel ngel Asturias logr una novela de prosa impecable, de ritmos y atm sferas po ticas, en la que relata el paulatino deterioro moral de un personaje complejo.

Una familia de pescadores, encuentra varado en las piedras de la playa a un delfin herido, le curan las heridas y lo devuelven al mar. El delfin en agradecimiento cada vez que el barco de la familia de pescadores que le salvo la vida sale al mar, les ayuda en la pesca, llenando las bodegas del barco de peces, este incidente lo guardan en secreto, por lo que los demas pescadores del pueblo empiezan a dudar de la honradez de dicha familia