La Niña is the most beloved kitten in the port. In the afternoons looking at the sea she had a dream, do you want to join her to fulfill it?

This great novel by Elena Poniatowska tells us about the transition from childhood to adulthood of Lilus Kikus, a girl who never stops asking questions and looking for answers in everything around her. A novel that has not lost its validity on the place that a girl occupies in our society and the struggles that she must face on a daily basis, without losing her enthusiasm and the joy of living. Recrea Libros reissues from Chile this magnificent story that will captivate boys and girls for ...

Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling—of sanity, of language . . .After experiencing a vision of what he calls “a clear-cut unhoped-for,” co...

In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literatureembraces her first passion-verse.With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways presents her...

When Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera, Diego was 42 years old, and 300 pounds; Frida was 22 years old,and just 98 pounds. Her mother did not approve of the union and did not attend the wedding ceremony. She said that Diego was too old, too fat and worse yet he was a Communist and an atheist. She described the marriage as "between an elephant and a dove." On one of Diego's frequent visits to the Kahlo home, Frida's father took Diego aside and said: "She is a devil". "I know" Diego replied. ...

An emotional and bold collection of 75 autobiographical poems by the author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies**.****“The poems are, like precious moments in life, nuggets to be savored and reflected upon.” —**The Dallas Morning NewsThe works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influence...

In our lives there are many forces that work for and against us. Sometimes things seem to be out of control. We start to dought ourselves, and fear starts to grip our minds. Many different and negative thoughts begin to fill our minds. Before long we start to get sick with depression and our well being begins to deterioate. We begin to lose hope and our faith. Even though hard times seem to last a long time, those are the times when our faith and self evaluation should to come into focus, ...

"The Stonecutter," a short story of middle-aged love gone terribly wrong, depicts librarian Eleanor and Portuguese stonecutter Fernando Andrade in an increasingly dark New England fall.

Waking up early, getting on the old bus to go to work. Every day the same people, with the same behaviours. Bordering on come dy, absurd, unsustainable. A journey spent criticizing others, until the final surprise.

An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry*The first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.Of course I put my underwear on backwards, of course the elastic didn't work.What I wanted most at that moment was a sandwich.But I just nursed on this leather whip.I just s...

Science-fiction story regarding mysterious death of great artist Salvador Dali and supernatural power of his painting named "Burning Giraffe",

A buoyant account of the nightly tug-of-war between a sleepy father and his son, and the richly imaginative "sleepy stories" they createEach story told in Sleepy Stories drifts deeper into a beguiling dream world, telling of an elastic gentleman who stretches his body across town to effortlessly slip into bed, or of another sleepy young man who curls inside an upside-down umbrella to take a snooze. In Diego Bianki's magical universe, the waking world is ma...