Showing results for "Nunez" in World Literature

The award-winning author of Prosperos Daughter has written a novel more intimate than her usual big-picture work; this moving exploration of immigrant identity has a protagonist caught between race, class, and a mother's love.

In an age of reality TV, a husband and wife cling to Victorian notions of privacy, though doing so threatens the life of the wife. Their daughter, Anna, yearns for her mother’s unguarded affection, and eventually learns there is value in restraint. But Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, finds that lesson harder to accept when, eager to assimilate in her new country, she discovers that a gap yawns between her and American-born citizens.

Lila Bonnard has left her island home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield, and was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose. The two Black faculty and a Black administrator in the otherwise all-white college expect Lila to be a witness in the case against the police.

El Salvador, un país pequeño y pobre, situado en el corazón de Centroamérica, estuvo sumido durante los años 80 en una guerra sin enemigo. La autora plasma en esta novela lo que hasta ahora no había sido dicho respecto al conflicto armado salvadoreño: cómo vivieron la guerra aquellos que no tenían nada que ver en la misma, pero que acabaron siendo cómplices al optar por la postura del más fuerte.

¡Alguien ha saqueado el guardarropa de la reina! Alguien ha perdido la cabeza: la propia reina. Sus ejércitos recorren el mundo en pie de guerra. Una historia verdaderamente disparatada./ Someone has ransacked the queen's closet! She's lost her mind! Her troops are ready for battle and travel the world in search of the thief who took the queens favorite pair of underwear.

Entre rimas jocosas y lecciones cantarinas, este libro ofrecerá a sus lectores un recorrido por la historia de México. Con cañonazos y toda la cosa, se narran brevemente los acontecimientos de la Independencia Nacional./ Amid cheerful rhymes and singsong lessons this book offers its readers an account of the history of Mexico. With cannon shots and all, the events of national Independence are told briefly

The onscreen pairing of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is at the heart of one of the most popular TV shows in history. Who would have thought that to get on the air, they had to battle both a network and a sponsor who thought the show couldn't possibly succeed? Playwright Gregg Oppenheimer, son of I Love Lucy’s creator Jess Oppenheimer, spins the hilarious true story behind America’s beloved TV comedy.