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The End of the Story

By: Liliana Heker

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Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges ... her fiction chronicles the small tragedies that take place within the vast tragedy of our history. A universal and indispensable writer." - Alberto Manguel When Diana Glass witnesses Leonora's abduction from a street in Buenos Aires, she despairs that her friend has joined the ranks of los desaparaecidos, the missing ones. She begins to write the story of their friendship, but certain memories, details, and whispered allegations about Leonora's fate consistently intrude. Leonora was born to drink life down to the bottom of the glass. But, Diana wonders, is that necessarily a virtue? Gripping, intelligent, and intricately structured, Liliana Heker's novel of an unstable revolutionary pasionaria has inflamed readers across Latin America. The End of the Story is a shocking study of the pyschology of torture, and a tragic portrait of Argentina's Dirty War.

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130

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Biblioasis

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1926845498

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9781926845494

Our Dead World

By: Liliana Colanzi

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Our Dead World

By: Liliana Colanzi

A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi’s stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America. Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

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125

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628972408

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9781628972405

Discounting the Future

The Ascendancy of a Political Technology

By: Liliana Doganova

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Discounting the Future

The Ascendancy of a Political Technology

By: Liliana Doganova

A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discounting Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device called discounting. While its incidence remains little known, discounting has long been entrenched in market and policy practices, shaping the ways firms and governments look to the future and make decisions accordingly. Thus, a sociological account of discounting formulas has become urgent. Discounting means valuing things through the flows of costs and benefits that they are likely to generate in the future, with these future flows being literally dis-counted as they are translated in the present. How have we come to think of the future, and of valuation, in such terms? Building on original empirical research in the historical sociology of discounting, Doganova takes us to some of the sites and moments in which discounting took shape and gained momentum: valuation of European forests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; economic theories devised in the early 1900s; debates over business strategies in the postwar era; investor-state disputes over the nationalization of natural resources; and drug development in the biopharmaceutical industry today. Weaving these threads together, the book pleads for an understanding of discounting as a political technology, and of the future as a contested domain.

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172

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Princeton University Press

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1942130929

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9781942130925

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives

By: Jennifer Austin,María Blume,Liliana Sánchez

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Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives

By: Jennifer Austin,María Blume,Liliana Sánchez

Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.

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249

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Cambridge University Press

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1316297721

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9781316297728

Codex of Love

Bendita Ternura

By: Liliana Valenzuela

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Codex of Love

Bendita Ternura

By: Liliana Valenzuela

Codex of Love: Bendita ternura is a migration of spirit. Liliana Valenzuela takes us by the hand and shows us where she comes from, where she's been, and where she is through a collection that at times reads like a song and other times like a prayer. Valenzuela's voice whispers to us and gives us pleasure. She is kind in her sensuality and transcendent in the matters of the heart. The five sections in the collection are as visual as they are thought provoking, through a metaphorical journey that's tender and urgent. A well thought and written poetic entree for the starving reader.

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188

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Flowersong Books

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1733809260

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9781733809269

Escritorxs Salvajes

37 Hispanic Writers in the United States

By: Hernán Vera Álvarez (ed.)

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Escritorxs Salvajes

37 Hispanic Writers in the United States

By: Hernán Vera Álvarez (ed.)

De la misma manera que en el nuevo mileniolos géneros sexuales languidecen, por fortuna,lo mismo ocurre con los literarios. Esta antología incluye cuento, poesía, crónica, ensayo personal y novela. Muchos de los textos están felizmente contaminados de uno y otro estilo.Toda literatura es una experiencia. Salvo un par que publicó en los 90, este trabajo reúne autores que en casi dos décadas hicieron una obraen tierra norteamericana: algunos describen la relación con el país extranjero en el que viven;a la vez, los escenarios se extienden por el resto del mundo. Es decir: los escritores que ya están afincados no siguen necesariamente hablando de inmigración, indocumentados, etc. Ya lo hicieron y ahora tienen nuevas obsesiones.

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595

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1948517477

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9781948517478

Book's by Liliana Valenzuela

The End of the Story

The End of the Story

Our Dead World

Our Dead World

Discounting the Future

Discounting the Future

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World

Codex of Love

Codex of Love

Escritorxs Salvajes

Escritorxs Salvajes

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