Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into English. The long years of dictatorship in Nicaragua are dramatically recreated as cabaret singers, activists, policemen, prostitutes, beauty queens and would-be presidents haunt this sophisticated, lyrical and timeless epic of resistance and retribution.
“One of the most talented Central American writers of his generation” NEW YORK TIMES
Subtle and convincing…, the book never loses its linguistic power or elegiac emotion.” LOS ANGELES TIMES
Rich in vivid and sensuous details of everyday life…out of which come potent emblems” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

To Bury Our Fathers: A Novel of Nicaragua (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

RAMÍREZ, SERGIO

United States

Readers International

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Jayyusi, Salma Khadra

Gassick, Trevor Le

Fire from the Ashes: Short Stories About Hiroshima and Nagasaki (English and Japanese Edition)

Literary

Gathered at a wake for Don Severino Gil in 1981, the year martial law was lifted in the Philippines, his curious relatives wonder why the old philanderer's coffin is sealed

Awaiting Trespass: A Pasion

Ty-Casper, Linda

British & Irish

A powerful novel of women in Latin America's hell of the disappeared.

Mothers And Shadows

Traba, Marta

Fools and Other Stories

Ndebele, Njabulo

World Literature

This daughter of East Germany's elite exploded into print with her first angry novel mixing a cry against industrial pollution with the longing and alienation of women in a workers' state -- now a classic feminist text finding a new readership in today's world where nature is still under attack, homogenized news still fills the airwaves, and women's lives still don't seem to matter.

Flight of Ashes

Maron, Monika

Contemporary

After years of living in the U.S., Johnny Manalo returns to the Philippines after the assassination of Acquino, and discovers the country has become immersed in corruption

Wings of Stone

In the two decades since Sergio Ramírez left active politics as a Sandinista leader of one of the great leftist revolutions of the Americas, his output as a writer and the appreciation of his literary achievement have only grown larger, culminating in his winning the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary accolade for a writer in the Hispanic world.These stories dating from early in his writing career and also marking his return to literature after a gap of some years in active politics, testify to the subtlety, delicacy and wit of Nicaragua’s leading literary voice.

Stories (Readers International)

This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic stages. We need this cleansing laughter.“Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes’ The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the philosophical kvetch.” —San Francisco Examiner 

The Laughing Cry (Readers International Series) (English and French Edition)

Lopes, Henri

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