The Magic of Blood
8 best books like The Magic of Blood (Dagoberto Gilb): Signs Preceding the End of the World, El túnel, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Way of the Bodhisattva, Loverboys, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Hue and Cry, Mary
Signs Preceding the End of the World
| Author | Yuri Herrera |
| ISBN | 1908276428 |
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.
Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...
| Author | Ernesto Sabato |
| ISBN | 9871144261 |
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existencial" le dio a su autor un reconocimiento que traspasó las fronteras nacionales. Para quien todavía no la leyó, El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0805091742 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚neither...
| Author | Śāntideva |
| ISBN | 1590300572 |
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0393331679 |
“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review
From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad...
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
| Author | James Alan McPherson |
| ISBN | 0060936479 |
First published in 1968, this collection includes the Atlantic Prize-winning story Gold Coast (selected by John Updike for the collection Best American Short Stories of the Century) and introduced America to McPherson's unforgettable, enduring vision and distinctive artistry.
Hue...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0679726209 |
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories...
