false 53065 143092 0060820713 9780060820718 12 <![CDATA[Our Lives Are the Rivers: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172150097m/143092.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172150097s/143092.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143092.Our_Lives_Are_the_Rivers_A_Novel 4.00 34 Based on actual events, this sweeping novel tells the life story of a woman who was willing to risk it all for her country and her lover—in whose legacy lies the history of an entire continent.

Our Lives Are the Rivers tells the story of beautiful young freedom fighter Manuela Sáenz, and the epic tale of her long love affair with liberator Simón Bolívar. A novel of intoxicating love, passion, and adventure, Jaime Manrique vividly captures a dynamic continent struggling for its own identity.

]]> 53065 3.92 74 20 2006 92398 0312088353 9780312088354 2 <![CDATA[Latin Moon in Manhattan: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171246757m/92398.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171246757s/92398.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92398.Latin_Moon_in_Manhattan_A_Novel 3.92 13 53065 3.92 74 20 1992 143112 0299161803 9780299161804 0 <![CDATA[Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172150113m/143112.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172150113s/143112.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143112.Eminent_Maricones_Arenas_Lorca_Puig_and_Me 3.83 6 Eminent Maricones starts off with some disjunctive memories of his childhood in Colombia, but truly begins to pick up steam when Manrique recounts his friendship with fellow writer Manuel Puig (best known as the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman), who, despite his "drag queen mannerisms" was "one of the most tough-minded people I've ever met." After a short chapter portraying an encounter with Reinaldo Arenas two days before Arenas, his body ravaged by the effects of HIV, committed suicide, Manrique launches an in-depth consideration of the shifts in attitude toward homosexuality in the writings of Federico García Lorca. Reading Lorca after the deaths of Puig and Arenas, Manrique explains, helped him come to terms with his own internalized homophobia; it also creates a loose canon of gay Latino writers who fought against tyranny--though any influence this canon may have had on Manrique's own writing is left undiscussed. Although its intimate portraits will be appreciated by those with an interest in gay or Latino literature, or both, other readers may find Eminent Maricones too brief to hold their interest.]]> 53065 3.92 74 20 1999 1380100 0452283582 9780452283589 3 <![CDATA[A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183122447m/1380100.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183122447s/1380100.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1380100.A_Whistler_in_the_Nightworld_Short_Fiction_from_the_Latin_Americas 3.43 7
In this new collection, acclaimed translator and editor Thomas Colchie brings together twenty-one mesmerizing stories-fourteen of which are being published in English for the first time-by some of today's premier voices in contemporary Latin American literature. In selections representing the wide and varied spectrum of the new Latin American writing, authors such Carmen Posadas and Jorge Volpi explore historical legends and hyper-realities with droll humor and subversive wit, while others, like Mayra Santos-Febres and Ernesto Mestre-Reed, darkly illuminate the contemporary urban scene with a grittier narrative and stylistic daring that takes the reader far beyond the tropical exotics and magical realism of the earlier "boom" writers.

Spanning life in the Latin Americas in the last several decades, the settings for these stories sweep from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean, and as far north as Alaska. A stellar collection of inventive storytelling, it will prove as irresistible as it is provocative, the mark of the very best in recent Latin American fiction.]]> 395818 3.93 30 11 55215 3.91 28348 6745 32943 3.62 138 20 116834 3.55 217 29 141862 3.52 21 7 1210837 3.10 10 4 340641 3.09 111 33 534040 3.43 14 5 1448555 3.44 9 4 4694 3.86 42766 1929 2925035 3.43 7 3 53065 3.92 74 20 7277 3.84 16303 2023 116823 3.27 201 51 12548 3.82 386 74 2925036 3.43 7 3 33407 3.58 577 106 2925037 3.43 7 3 821661 3.50 12 3 2925038 3.43 7 3 2925039 3.43 7 3 2002 297080 0299187640 9780299187644 0 <![CDATA[My Night with Federico García Lorca]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488848m/297080.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488848s/297080.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297080.My_Night_with_Federico_Garc_a_Lorca 4.00 4 53065 3.92 74 20 1997 828183 1891305573 9781891305573 0 <![CDATA[Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178734704m/828183.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178734704s/828183.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828183.Tarzan_My_Body_Christopher_Columbus 4.00 3 PUBLISHER: Painted Leaf Press

]]> 53065 3.92 74 20 2001 3406668 0571199011 9780571199013 1 <![CDATA[Twilight at the Equator: A Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3406668.Twilight_at_the_Equator_A_Novel 3.00 1 Latin Moon in Manhattan is one of the great under-recognized classics of gay male fiction. Now, with Twilight at the Equator Manrique shows himself once again to be both an exquisite writer and profound thinker. Twilight tells the story of Santiago Martinez, a young gay novelist who, after he is forced to deal with his sister's suicide, discovers that his family's past secrets are more than alive in the present, and just as dangerous. Manrique seduces us into believing the myth of the safe past, of secure history, of the happy family even as he begins to dismantle these ideas. Twilight at the Equator is a profoundly moving and beautifully written novel.]]> 53065 3.92 74 20 1434462 3.00 1 1 1997 1780970 0380691043 9780380691043 0 <![CDATA[Colombian Gold]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1780970.Colombian_Gold 0.0 0 53065 3.92 74 20 1984 2522294 8482770195 9788482770192 0 <![CDATA[Notas de cine: Confesiones de un critico amateur]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2522294.Notas_de_cine_Confesiones_de_un_critico_amateur 0.0 0 53065 3.92 74 20 1979 1128347 0791028887 9780791028889 0 <![CDATA[Federico Garcia Lorca (Lives of Notable Gay Men & Lesbians Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128347.Federico_Garcia_Lorca 0.0 0 53065 3.92 74 20 1997