Jojo: Historia de un saltimbanqui
10 best books like Jojo: Historia de un saltimbanqui (Michael Ende): The Tin Drum, Germinal, Women, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Justine, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, The Collini Case, Jerusalén, Masada, The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary
| Author | Günter Grass |
| ISBN | 0099483505 |
I had an intense reaction to this book. I friggin hated it. Or, rather, I loved to hate it, while I was reading it. It was an assignment in a Postmodern Lit. class, and everyone in the class liked the protagonist but me. I thought he was awful. I couldn't believe they enjoyed him, much less admitted to enjoying...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 0140447423 |
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young...
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0061177598 |
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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
Justine was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille. Although published anonymously, de Sade was eventually indicted for blasphemy and obscenity (without trial) for the authorship of Justine at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who...
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 0060751584 |
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker
This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella,...
| Author | Ferdinand von Schirach |
| ISBN | 0670026522 |
The internationally bestselling courtroom drama centering on a young German lawyer and a case involving war crimes
A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release—with rights sold in seventeen countries—The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European...
| Author | J.J. Benítez |
| ISBN | 8408061909 |
Tal como afirma el propio J.J. Benitez, "adelantar el argumento y la naturaleza de Caballo de Troya es quebrar el desconcertante misterio que encierran sus páginas". Podemos apuntar, eso sí, que para la elaboración de esta obra el autor se ha basado en una documentación real, depositada hace años...
| Author | J.J. Benítez |
| ISBN | 8408061917 |
Con esta novela-testimonio, J.J. Benítez completa el famoso diario del mayor norteamericano que saltó a los tiempos de Jesús de Nazaret. Si en Jerusalén. "Caballo de Troya 1" se afirma que los evangelistas no contaron la verdad sobre Jesús de Nazaret, en esta nueva obra vuelve a demostrarse....
The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary
| Author | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN | 0198645384 |
Oxford-Duden Pictorial Dictionaries have become widely known and valued throughout the world for their unique presentation of an extensive range of vocabulary items, from the familiar to the highly specialized. This dictionary identifies over 28,000 objects in its numbered illustrations and...
American Streamline Destinations
| Author | Bernard Hartley |
| ISBN | 0194341208 |
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La Mafia Nos Robo La Presidencia
| Author | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| ISBN | 9707802154 |
Excelente descripción del presidente López Obrador sobre cómo la derecha mexicana realizó un fraude electoral contra el pueblo de México. Escribo esta reseña en 2019, cuando aún la derecha excreta sandeces sobre el "dominio" de MORENA, partido de López. Sin embargo, esa misma derecha omite...
Muchas vidas, muchos maestros
| Author | Brian Weiss |
| ISBN | 8490707189 |
La historia real de un psiquiatra, su joven paciente y la terapia de regresión que cambió sus vidas para siempre.
Un punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica.
El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, si primer libro,una...
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
| Author | Dick Hebdige |
| ISBN | 0415039495 |
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers...
El hombre que amaba a los perros
| Author | Leonardo Padura |
| ISBN | 8483831368 |
En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve los ojos hacia un episodio de su vida, ocurrido en 1977, cuando conoció a un enigmático hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos hermosos galgos rusos....
Diccionario De La Lengua Náhuatl O Mexicana
Cuando en 1875 anuncie, en mi introduccion a la gramatica nahuatl del franciscano Andres de Olmos, que estaba preparando un diccionario y una gramatica de la lengua mexicana, tenia la intencion de hacer con estos trabajos dos publicaciones aparte. Mas tarde pense que seria preferible reunirlos en...
| Author | Sandra Bao |
| ISBN | 1740594851 |
Cheer at a heart-racing soccer match then tango till dawn at a steamy milonga. People-watch from a century-old cafe and feast on the most succulent beef imaginable. From the most authentic parrillas to the hippest shopping streets, our native-born author un- covers all the local secrets. Get the inside...
Guzmán Blanco: Tragedia en seis partes y un epílogo
| Author | Tomás Polanco Alcántara |
| ISBN | 9806386299 |
El autor expone, con lenguaje preciso y claro y sin menoscabo de la sencillez, los aspectos más relevantes de la personalidad de Antonio Guzmán Blanco(18291-1899), quien es sin ninguna clase de dudas una de las figuras más importantes de la historia republicana de Venezuela. Sus orígenes familiares,...
