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Tierra fresca de su tumba / by Rivero, Giovanna,1972-author.(CARDINAL)883192;

La mansedumbre -- Pez, tortuga, buitre -- Cuanda llueve parece humano -- Socorro -- Piel de asno -- Hermano ciervo."In the tales of Fresh Earth from Her Grave there are fishermen who cross the seas of death, girls abandoned in the steppes who find in the gospel a bridge to beauty, women whose madness is nothing more than a shattered heart, old Japanese women who dig in a garden to find the best and worst of themselves, boys from a Canadian tribe who dress in animal skins so they can roar again. Characters, in short, who tear the thin membrane of ordinary life, try to touch, with the outstretched hands of childhood, the sensual dimension of the beyond and dangerously look into an inner abyss that will eventually devour them. Six stories of luminous darkness that pierce us like a wound, and that in the end make us understand the possibilities of love, justice and hope, but also, as in Edgar Allan Poe's "A descent into the Maelström", the height and depth of the abyss. "- Page 4 of cover, Google Translate."En los cuentos de Tierra fresca de su tumba aparecen pescadores que atraviesan los mares de la muerte, niñas abandonadas en las estepas que encuentran en el góspel un puente hacia la belleza, mujeres cuya demencia no es otra cosa que un corazón despedazado, ancianas japonesas que cavan en un jardín para encontrar lo mejor y lo peor de sí mismas, muchachos de una tribu del Canadá que se visten con pieles de animales para poder rugir de nuevo. Personajes, en definitiva, que rasgan la delgada membrana de la vida ordinaria, intentan tocar, con las manos extendidas de la infancia, la dimensión sensual del más allá y se asoman peligrosamente a un abismo interior que acabará por devorarlos. Seis historias de oscuridad luminosa que nos atraviesan como una herida, y que al final nos hacen comprender las posibilidades del amor, la justicia y la esperanza, pero también, como en "Un descenso al Maelström" de Edgar Allan Poe, la altura y la profundidad del abismo."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, Bolivian.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Fire from the Andes : short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / by Benner, Susan E.(Susan Elizabeth),1957-(CARDINAL)642067; Leonard, Kathy S.,1952-(CARDINAL)642068;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-189).

Subjects: Fiction.; Bolivian fiction; Bolivian fiction; Ecuadorian fiction; Ecuadorian fiction; Peruvian fiction; Peruvian fiction; Short stories, Bolivian; Short stories, Ecuadorian; Short stories, Peruvian;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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You glow in the dark : stories / by Colanzi Serrate, Liliana,1981-author.(CARDINAL)465381; Andrews, Chris,1962-translator.(CARDINAL)771118;

The cave -- Atomito -- The debt -- Chaco -- The greenest eyes -- The narrow way -- You glow in the dark."The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing-at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific-casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: Was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from Andean cyberpunk just as much as from classic horror writers, and this daring is matched by her energizing simultaneous use of multiplicity and fragmentation-the book's stylistic trademarks. Freely mixing worlds, she uses the Bolivian altiplano as the backdrop for an urban dystopia and blends Aymara with Spanish. Colanzi never gets bogged down; she can be brutal and direct or light-handed and subtle. Her materials are dark, but always there's the lift of her vivid sense of humor. You Glow in the Dark seizes the reader's attention (from the title on) and holds it: this is a book that announces the arrival of a major new talent"--

Subjects: Short stories.; Horror fiction.; Colanzi Serrate, Liliana, 1981-;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5

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Our dead world / by Colanzi Serrate, Liliana,1981-author.(CARDINAL)465381; Sequeira, Jessica,translator.(CARDINAL)415884;

The eye -- Alfredito -- The wave -- Meteorite -- Cannibal -- Family portrait -- Our dead world -- Story with bird."A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family's surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi's stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America."--

Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Short stories.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Affections / by Hasbún, Rodrigo,1981-author.(CARDINAL)347856; Hughes, Sophie(Sophie Elizabeth),1986-translator.(CARDINAL)347857;

"A haunting novel about an unusual family's breakdown--set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl--from the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, "a great writer." Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of World War II, Hans and his family flee to Bolivia to start over. There, the ever-restless Hans decides to embark on an expedition in search of the fabled lost Inca city of Paititi, enlisting two of his daughters to join him on his outlandish quest into the depths of the Amazon, with disastrous consequences. Set against the backdrop of the both optimistic and violent 1950s and 1960s, Affections traces the Ertls's slow and inevitable breakdown through the various erratic trajectories of each family member: Hans's undertakings of colossal, foolhardy projects and his subsequent spectacular failures; his daughter Monika, heir to his adventurous spirit, who joins the Bolivian Marxist guerrillas and becomes known as "Che Guevara's avenger"; and his wife and two younger sisters left to pick up the pieces in their wake. In this short but powerful work, Hasbún weaves a masterfully layered tale of how a family's voyage of discovery ends up eroding the affections that once held it together"--

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Germans; Families;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking--how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age / by Paul, Caroline,author.(CARDINAL)648863;

Includes bibliographical references.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three- year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences, supported by scientific studies, offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the out-doors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.

Subjects: Outdoor recreation for women.; Older women athletes.; Older women.; Older women; Aging; Aging;

Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 14

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