"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...

"My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot D©Ưaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers--brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet. The cumulative effect is that of a novel--or...

"La compilación de la obra esencial de Neruda ha corrido a cargo del académico chileno Hernán Loyola, quien ha logrado perfilar una excelente guía para poder seguir, en doce capítulos, la aventura creadora del gran poeta. Así, el texto de la Antología General viene precedido de una serie de análisis que comienza Jorge Edwards (Academia Chilena) con un testimonio personal, una crónica de la última etapa de vida del gran poeta. También escriben...