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Tango for a Torturer

Author : Daniel Chavarría
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tango for a Torturer written by Daniel Chavarría and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Bianchi, an Argentine former revolutionary living in Italy, travels to Havana where he meets the beautiful Bini, a graduate student working the hotels with great wit and panache. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto Ríos, is living under a false identity in Cuba. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy.Daniel Chavarría portrays the sensuousness and skullduggery of contemporary Havana, a city that offers erotic thrills to pleasure-seeking tourists even as it hides villains in its humid embrace. While Ríos thrives on bribery and corruption, Bianchi is driven by a desire to see justice done. Tango for a Torturer is a political thriller in which bawdy humour coexists alarmingly with chilling evocations of the evils wrought by military dictatorships in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Ruins

Author : Achy Obejas
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354690
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Ruins written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994 Cuba, Usnavy begins to question his loyalty to the Cuban government as his family falls apart amidst rising poverty and he learns a family secret behind his one prize: a Tiffany lamp given to him by his mother.

Dog War

Author : Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933354286
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Dog War written by Anthony C. Winkler and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Precious Higginson's husband suddenly passes away, she is forced to move in with her son, then her daughter, and on from there, always finding herself in one insulting situation after another.

American Visa

Author : Juan de Recacoechea
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354208
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book American Visa written by Juan de Recacoechea and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa - his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami. American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler ... a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.' - George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener'

Cake

Author : D
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750867
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Cake written by D and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Got returns with another suspenseful work of “gritty street noir” (Publishers Weekly). “There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch. . . . Urban libraries have to get Got.” —Library Journal, on D’s debut novel Got It’s less than six months after the events of D’s first novel, Got, and our nameless narrator has vanished off the Brooklyn grid, only to end up in Atlanta. He’s enrolled in college, trying to live a normal life and escape the memories of his past in New York. Yet trouble is shadowing him, and he is about to be forced to make a life-or-death decision . . .

Reading on Location

Author : Luisa Moncada
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607652455
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Reading on Location written by Luisa Moncada and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the charming city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the Amazon of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde, this unique travel guide brings you to the places you've only read about. Whether you want to learn more about a destination or follow in the footsteps of a favorite character, Reading on Location helps you make the most of your trip.

The Girl with the Golden Shoes

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354267
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Shoes written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Estrella Thompson approaches a diver that flops up on a Caribbean island, she is banished from the only home she has ever known, and her first goal is to buy a pair of shoes so that she can find a job.

The Lunatic

Author : Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933354293
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Lunatic written by Anthony C. Winkler and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever US publication of this Caribbean classic upon which a feature film by the same title is based.

Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars

Author : David Kohut
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873745
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars written by David Kohut and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of 'The Dirty Wars' focuses on the period 1954-1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.

The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

Author : M.A. Orthofer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518501
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction written by M.A. Orthofer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. The book's critical selection of titles defines the arc of a country's literary development. Entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors. Compiled by M. A. Orthofer, an avid book reviewer and the founder of the literary review site the Complete Review, this reference is perfect for readers who wish to expand their reading choices and knowledge of contemporary world fiction. “A bird's-eye view of titles and authors from everywhere―a book overfull with reminders of why we love to read international fiction. Keep it close by.”—Robert Con Davis-Udiano, executive director, World Literature Today “M. A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. [This book] will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University “A relaxed, riverine guide through the main currents of international writing, with sections for more than a hundred countries on six continents.”—Karan Mahajan, Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker

Death of a Tango King

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814715758
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Death of a Tango King written by Jerome Charyn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of U.S. environmentalists try to enroll a drug lord to help save South American rain forests from destruction. They spring a woman bank robber, his cousin, from a U.S. jail and send her to Colombia to talk to him.

Caribbean Middlebrow

Author : Belinda Edmondson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801448140
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Middlebrow written by Belinda Edmondson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. This book recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century. It shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture is further gendered as "female": women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women's behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community's respectability. The book also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century.

Tango One

Author : Stephen Leather
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1844568598
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Tango One written by Stephen Leather and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to, and to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the world's biggest drug dealers, Den Donovan, alias 'Tango One' - number one on HM Customs and Excise's List of most wanted criminals. Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close, perhaps, to remember the rules . . . *********** Praise for Stephen Leather '[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real' Daily Mail 'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' - Sun

MultiCultural Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adios Muchachos

Author : Daniel Chavarría
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750840
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Adios Muchachos written by Daniel Chavarría and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers “pulp fiction in Castro’s Cuba” (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice). Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary john, and as Alicia’s feelings for him grow, she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity. So when King’s wealthy and sexually deviant boss is suddenly killed, Alicia and John hatch a get-rich-quick scheme. A web of deception is woven—but it will be quickly and disastrously unraveled, and only one person will be able to say adiós to the dilapidated island of Cuba . . . “Fun, fast, and intelligent . . . A madcap caper full of twisted sex, devious schemes and high-rolling hijinks . . . Will leave readers clamoring for more.” —Publishers Weekly “The book’s cynical take on ambition and greed is tempered by humor and humanity.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down. This is a great read.” —Library Journal

Last Tango in Buenos Aires

Author : David Marsh
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784625221
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Last Tango in Buenos Aires written by David Marsh and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy travel writing? Read Last Tango in Buenos Aires and travel through Argentina with David Marsh. Meet pilgrims and Indians, poets and nuns, teachers, priests, veterans of the war in the South Atlantic, gold diggers, coal miners and ranchers, those bereaved by the Dirty War and apologists for it, and those nostalgic for the time when theirs was one of the world’s richest countries or Evita held half the nation spellbound. Everyone has an image of Argentina or its people, be it tango dancers or gauchos riding the pampa, football and the ‘hand of God’, the snowcapped Andes or the Patagonian vast, ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’, or beef and Malbec. The Argentinians themselves are wont to joke that theirs would be the most wonderful country in the world, were it not for its 42 million inhabitants. David Marsh goes beyond this self-deprecating take and delves into the Argentinian psyche in Last Tango in Buenos Aires, which takes an intimate look into an often-misunderstood country. “Everyone I met seemed to have a tale to tell or a point to make," said David Marsh, when discussing his travels through Argentina. Their voices breathe authentic life into Last Tango in Buenos Aires, a compelling book that will appeal to fans of travel writing. It covers not only Argentina’s geographical and cultural diversity, its beauty, history, politics, and paradoxes, but also the Argentinians of diverse backgrounds and walks of life that David met during his travels.

Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion

Author : Leslie Bow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824141
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion written by Leslie Bow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion. In exploring the relationship between femininity and citizenship, liberal feminism and American racial discourse, and women's domestic abuse and human rights, the author suggests that Asian American women not only mediate sexuality's construction as a determiner of loyalty but also manipulate that construction as a tool of political persuasion in their writing. The language of betrayal, she argues, offers a potent rhetorical means of signaling how belonging is policed by individuals and by the state. Bow's bold analysis exposes the stakes behind maintaining ethnic, feminist, and national alliances, particularly for women who claim multiple loyalties.