Showing results for "Esmeralda" in World Literature

A former military dog, a Venezuelan street mutt, and a cannibalistic Shih Tzu, who have lost their owners, escape rescue cages. Now they have to learn to survive together in a colonial Ecuadorian mountain town, bisected by winding rivers that descend to the Amazon.

De la galardonada autora bestseller de Cuando era puertorriqueña, nos llega una poderosa novela sobre la familia, la raza, la fe, el sexo y el desastre que transita entre Puerto Rico y el Bronx, revelando las vidas y los amores de cinco mujeres, y el secreto que las une. Se hacen llamar “Las...

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together They refer to themselves as “las...

An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome...

MULHERES ESMERALDAS conta a história de um repórter da Playboy retornando do exílio que, em 1984, quer fazer um ensaio fotográfico para a revista numa mina explorada por mulheres na Amazônia. Domingos foi repórter da Playboy nessa época, cobriu Serra Pelada e ouviu falar dessa mina. As jovens do lugar aceitam a proteção do delegado do município de Alta Mata em troca de uma parcela do ouro que produzem. O que ele não sabe é que, lideradas por uma ex-enfermeira americana, elas buscam também um veio de esmeraldas.