Margaret Sayers Peden Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Autor spracoval jednu z najčastejších tém latinskoamerickej literatúry: klasicizmus, systém osobnej moci malých vidieckych pohlavárov vládnúcich neobmedzene nad životom a smrťou svojich poddaných na rozsiahlych latifundiách...

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head - with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew - to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlists the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoube. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. Alexander and Nadia, entrusting the magical strengths of Jaguar and Eagle, their totemic animal spirits, launch a spectacular and precarious struggle to restore freedom and return leadership to its rightful hands. The final instalment of Isabel Allende's celebrated trilogy soars with radiant settings, spirits, beings - and the transformation of an extraordinary friendship.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

The second 'Captain Alatriste' novel, from a series which has sold 4 million copies worldwide

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

A child of two worlds -- the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman -- young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century California. And so a great hero is born -- skilled in athleticism and dazzling swordplay, his persona formed between the Old World and the New -- the legend known as Zorro.

Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. -Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say.- Milan Kundera

A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passionsIn one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense drama of Berlioz's music for "The Damnation of Faust" informs the action; in the other, we watch as a slowly emergent love shapes the nature and character of the two protagonists. A beautiful crystal seal -- the meaning of which is a mystery that obsesses Atlan-Ferrara, who owns it -- unites these two narratives; the magical seal allows one to read unknown languages and hear impossible music, and it is the symbol of a shared love. The duality of Carlos Fuentes's brilliant new novel mirrors two eras, one in the deepest remote time and one in a time to come, but the passions evoked in both, reflected against each other like two sides of a crystal seal, break the limits of time and space and unite in one story. And, like the light refracted through the seal, it begins in prehistory and spirals out into infinity . . . In "Inez," we find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as Mexico's pre-eminent novelist.

Príbeh Elizy Sommersovej, hlavnej postavy románu Dcéra šťasteny, pokračuje v románe Sépiový portrét rozprávaním Elizinej vnučky Aurory del Valle, ktorá ako dieťa utrpí šok, v dôsledku čoho sa jej vymaže z pamäti prvých päť rokov života. V okamihu, keď sa musí vysporiadať so zradou muža, ktorého miluje, a vzoprieť sa hroziacej samote, rozhodne sa rozlúštiť záhadu svojej minulosti. Dej situovaný do konca 19. storočia sa odohráva na pozadí vzrušujúcich udalostí čílskych dejín a spája osudy hrdinov z knihy Dcéra šťasteny s protagonistami Allendeovej slávneho románu Dom duchov.

Mladá Čiľanka Eliza Sommerová sa šialene zaľúbi do Joaquína Andietu. Ten odíde na sever do Kalifornie spolu s tisícami ďalších nadšencov, ktorí dúfajú, že sa im podarí rýchlo zbohatnúť v čase zlatej horúčky. Eliza čaká dieťa a rozhodne sa, že svojho milenca nájde. Preoblečená v mužských šatách sa ukryje v podpalubí plachetnice a počas nebezpečnej cesty príde o dieťa a takmer aj o život. Zachráni ju čínsky lekár, v ktorom nájde oporu a veľkú životnú istotu.

Excellent, highly colloquial translation of Arr ancame la vida (see HLAS 48:5193), set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Peden has created a sparkling, irreverent Catalina, Mastretta's first-person protagonist who narrates her coming of age through a marriage to a retired general much older than hersel

Románom Paula si Isabel Allendová vo svete opäť získala srdcia svojich čitateľov i odbornej kritiky. Hlboko dojímavý príbeh románu tematicky vychádza z tragickej osobnej skúsenosti autorky – zo smrti jej 28-ročnej dcéry. Začína sa ako list, ktorý píše matka svojej dcére, no postupne sa z neho stáva meditácia o matkinom živote a dcérinej smrti, popretkávaná spomienkami, bizarnými postavami a vlastnými zážitkami.

Poviedková kniha Skazené dievča (Príbehy Evy Luny) je pestrou paletou osudov európskych prisťahovalcov, zbohatlíkov, skorumpovaných úradníkov i indiánov. Sú zmesou rozprávania o brutálnom násilí, pokrivených medziľudských vzťahoch, ale aj o láske v jej rozmanitých podobách a premenách. Príbehy Evy Luny nadväzujú na najlepšie tradície tzv. magického realizmu a prinášajú vzrušujúce čítanie, na ktoré sa len tak ľahko nezabúda.

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about... Sabato's first novel El Túnel (translated as The Outsider or The Tunnel ), written in 1948, is framed as the confession of the painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him. Sabato's novels were praised by authors such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene.

One of Carlos Fuentes’s greatest works, The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa’s soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.