This will be the first Latin American and Caribbean anthology about baseball in English. Translates from the Spanish, the volume includes the best short stories written about baseball and its important to the popular cultures of the Caribbean and Central and South America.The editor/translator, Dick Cluster, located 63 stories written about baseball in these countries written and published over the past 30 years, and selected the top 19 stories for the current anthology.Eve...

"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." —Harry BelafonteSince its founding in 1519, Havana has drawn people from all over the world, including explorers, immigrant, refugees, and the exiled, to create a melting pot of influences and cultures––and a ver...

Gabriela Aleman has been described as one of the best contemporary writers in the Spanish language; she is the recipient of several awards in Latin America including a selection by the Hay Festival and Bogota World Capital of the Book as one of the 39 best writers under the age of 39 in Latin America and a Guggenheim scholarship.Poso Wells explores political and social tensions in Ecuador in terms of gender.

FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family saga."Gabriela Alemán has written a terrible and beautiful story about the delicate borders between what is known and what is invented, and about the places where intimate tragedy and the tragedies of history inte...

Fiction from and about Cuba has been greeted with enthusiasm by American readers (Telex from Cuba is one example).The is an entertaining, very readable book that gives an accurate view of contemporary Havana, its physical, social and political milieu. The very real dilemma faced by many Cubans -- whether to make one's life on the island or leave for better opportunities abroad -- is the focus of this story, and the author does an excellent job of portraying exactly what the stakes ...

•This book is readable and fun, while dealing with serious topics like femicide, ecological devastation, the drug wars and more.•Gabriela Alemán is one of the most accomplished South American authors working today, and her short fiction and novels have been published in multiple languages.•Poso Wells, Alemán’s first work to be published in English translation (City Lights, 2018), received the “Indies Introduce Award” and “IndieNext” from the ABA, and was a “Staff P...

#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in t...

'Isabel Allende enchants in Maya's Notebook' Vanity FairLiving on Chiloé, a beautiful remote island off the coast of Chile, might sound like paradise. For nineteen-year-old Maya, it's the only way she can stay alive.Abandoned by her parents as a baby and raised by her grandparents in California, Maya was always a troubled child. But when her beloved grandfather dies, she spirals and runs away to Las Vegas. When she's sucked into the city's drug trade, she ...

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even ...

ROBERTO DURAN is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest boxer of all time, he held world titles at four different weights and is the only professional in history to have fought in five different decades. His bouts with fellow greats like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have gone down in fistic folklore and his pro record of 104 wins, 69 by KO, in 120 fights puts him in an elite group of fighters. They called him Manos de Piedra: “Hands of Stone”.American jo...

Lionel Messi is one of the greatest soccer players of his generation. In fact, although still so young, he has been dubbed by many fellow professionals as "The Best Player to Ever Grace the Sport." Most fans are aware of his successes on the field, but in order to truly understand Lionel Messi, you must first understand where he came from. Lionel Messi: An Unauthorized Biography explores Messi's upbringing and details his breakthrough onto the world stage, all the way through his ...

Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries."Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Its best-known personalities and ordinary citizens talk to him about the U...