Marie Arana Libros

This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America.

An authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman draws on a wealth of primary documents to set his life against a backdrop of the explosive tensions of 19th-century South America, providing coverage of such topics as his role in the 1813 campaign for Colombian and Venezuelan independence, his legendary love affairs and his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist and diplomat.

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.

Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life . In it, authors divulge professional how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the myriad frustrations and delights a writer's life affords. Culled from ten years of the distinguished Washington Post column of the same name, The Writing Life highlights an eclectic group of luminaries who have wildly varied stories to tell, but who share this singularly beguiling career. Here are their pleasures as well as their peeves; revelations of their deepest fears; dramas of triumphs and failures; insights into the demands and rewards.Each piece is accompanied by a brief and vivid biography of the writer by Washington Post Book World editor Marie Arana who also provides an introduction to the collection. The result is a rare view from the a close examination of writers' concerns about the creative process and the place of literature in America. For anyone interested in the making of fiction and nonfiction, here is a fascinating vantage on the writer's world -- an indispensable guide to the craft.

Meeslepende roman uit Latijns-Amerika over een excentrieke familie in de jungle Don Victor Sobrevilla Paniagua, een excentrieke ingenieur, heeft er altijd van gedroomd een papierfabriek op te zetten in het hart van de Peruaanse jungle, en na jaren hard werken is zijn droom uitgekomen. Hij woont met zijn vrouw en kinderen op de haciënda Floralinda, midden in het regenwoud, en de zaken gaan voorspoedig. Op een dag echter begint de hond vreemd te kuchen, kleurt een inheems jongetje blauw, en worden de bewoners van Floralinda getroffen door een mysterieus virus. Don Victor wordt overweldigd door herinneringen aan erotische uitspattingen in zijn verleden; zijn fatsoenlijke echtgenote doña Mariana onthult de schokkende waarheid omtrent haar afkomst; en zelfs de priester kan de schijn van deugdzaamheid niet langer ophouden. De waarheid is als een plaag over de Sobrevilla's neergedaald, en dat is het begin van een openhartig en vooral verrassend tijdperk.