Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Fictional writer Alma Cruz is done with her writing career when she builds a cemetery for her unfinished stories. In The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez (published April 2024), Alma’s story drafts, which have been buried in boxes in the ground or burned, now speak out from the ground. At once a celebration
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto1 blends two stories of seeking one’s identity in the midst of war-torn Mozambique. In the first, an old man and a young orphaned boy have fled a refugee camp and seek shelter in a burned-out bus on the side of the road. Near a corpse, they find a set of
When I read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (published 1967) half a decade ago, I didn’t understand it, but I loved every bit of it. As I struggled for months through the saga (part of which I read in the original Spanish, part in translation by Gregory Rabassa), I found myself
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is almost a genre by itself. The traditional Mexican recipes are provided in a novel format as it tells the story of Tita, Tita’s overbearing mother, and Tita’s lover, Pedro, who marries her sister. And yet, it’s not a cook book, and I don’t think it’s not an
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