LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nick caistor

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  • Winter Quarters
    Osvaldo Soriano / Nick Caistor
      In Winter Quarters two performers past their prime have come to the provincial town of Colonia Vela, the setting of A Funny Dirty Little War, to open a local festival. Strangers to each other, this worn-out boxer and has-been tango singer become loyal friends -- even unto death.  The boxer has been selected to fight the local hero, the army’s champ who has national ambitions....
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    21,41 €

  • A Funny Dirty Little War
    Osvaldo Soriano / Nick Caistor
    'This fierce little novel tells the story of a political con­frontation in a remote village in Argentina. Obscure differences between Peronist supporters and leaders escalate in a crescendo of violence to the final massacre. The characters, who with each event evolve from the comic and grotesque to the tragic, are observed by the author with a cool, dispassionate gaze, thoug...
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    21,68 €

  • Mexico Inside Out
    Nick Caistor
    Mexico is a country of upheavals: it’s not only a land of volcanoes and earthquakes, but historically it has seen empires rise and fall, and revolutions bring dramatic changes to its society. This short book offers an up-to-date analysis of all aspects of life in Mexico today. It includes a look at Mexico’s geography and history; its peoples, economy and cultural life; and the ...
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    28,45 €

  • To Bury Our Fathers
    Sergio Ramirez / Nick Caistor
    Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into English. The long years of dictatorship in Nicaragua are dramatically recreated ...
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    24,68 €

  • Stories
    Sergio Ramirez / Nick Caistor
    In the two decades since Sergio Ramírez left active politics as a Sandinista leader of one of the great leftist revolutions of the Americas, his output as a writer and the appreciation of his literary achievement have only grown larger, culminating in his winning the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary accolade for a writer in the Hispanic world.These stories dating from earl...
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    21,68 €

  • Picking up the Pieces
    Nick Caistor / Susana Villaran
    With the sudden flight of its decade-long dictator Alberto Fujimori in 2001 and the apprehension of his eminence grise Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru has in recent years experienced one of the most dramatic turnarounds of any Latin American country. Picking Up the Pieces: Corruption and Democracy in Peru looks at how Peruvians have reconstituted democracy in their country after a d...
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    35,43 €

  • Born To Die in Medellin
    Alonso Salazar / Nick Caistor
    An insight into urban violence in Medellin, Colombia’s second city. Alsonso Salazar journeys into the jails, hospitals and shanty towns of Colombia’s drug capital to interview teenage contract killers, their families, priests and self-defence vigilantes. He brings alive the world of Medellin’s youth gangs who, in their own words, are 'born to die' before they can have children ...
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    35,76 €