This mesmerizing novel, first published in 1989, marks the debut in English of one of the most brilliant and admired of today's Latin American writers. A family's history is told as the clan gathers at the matriarch's deathbed.

The Republic of Dreams: A Novel (Texas Pan American Series)

Literature & Fiction

Piñon, Nélida

Contemporary

University of Texas Press

From one of Brazil’s most beloved writers, a magical tale of lust, power, betrayal, and forgiveness set in the royal court of thirteenth-century Baghdad: a sumptuous retelling of the legend of Scheherazade that illuminates her character as never before. In exquisite prose, Nélida Piñon transports us from the Caliph’s private sanctum to the crowded streets of the forbidden marketplace, to the high seas of imagination, and to Scheherazade’s innermost life, as she weaves her tales night after night. As the novel opens, the Caliph, betrayed by the Sultana, vows to take his revenge on the women of his kingdom by marrying a different virgin each night and executing her at dawn. Born into privilege, a daughter of the Vizier, Scheherazade decides to risk her life by marrying the Caliph, in an effort to save the women of Baghdad. Every evening, in an amorous battle devoid of love, Scheherazade succumbs to the Caliph’s advances, and every night, with the help of her devoted sister Dinazarda and her loyal slave Jasmine, she entices the Caliph with her storytelling, unfurling accounts from the desert, the tundra, the bazaar, the golden-domed mosques. Scheherazade gives herself entirely to her characters, speaking as both man and woman, capturing the call of the muezzin, the speech of the caravans, the voices of the scattered tribes from the Red Sea to Damascus. The Caliph, unable to sate his curiosity, prolongs her life each day, desperate to hear how her stories will end. As Scheherazade brings him the tales of his people, he begins to question his cruel mandate and his own hardened heart, until, finally, Scheherazade discovers how to live out her story in a way that not even she could have imagined. Here, for the first time, is the story of One Thousand and One Nights told from Scheherazade’s perspective, giving us the full breadth and depth of her longings and desires, her jealousies and resentments. Voices of the Desert is the ancient story reinvented—as a woman’s story, an erotic allegory, a haunting meditation on the power of storytelling.

Voices of the Desert: A novel

Literary

KNOPF

A novel that brings before the reader four generations of a family torn between its Spanish past and its Brazilian present. It is a revelation also of the power of storytelling and the nature of dreaming.

Republic of Dreams

Pan Books, Ltd.

The impending death of the matriarch of a Brazilian family spurs a reexamination of four generations of family history and the family's place in the development of the nation of Brazil

The Republic of Dreams

Returning to her hometown after years of traveling the world and pretending to be a world-famous diva, Caetana draws the town's most illustrious citizens--among them a cattle baron, an historian and poet, and a pharmacist--into her life.

Caetana's Sweet Song

Voices of the Desert

<div>Caillou's friend, Sarah, gets on the big, yellow school bus every morning, but Caillou has to wait a little longer before he goes to school. He just can't wait to ride the school bus.</div>

Caillou: El autobus escolar (Caillou Clubhouse Series) (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Altea

Piñon en el auge de su narrativa: su estilo profundo y elegante sumerge al lector en el fascinante mundo de las luces y las sombras de las relaciones familiares. En cada cuento, en cada hogar, esperan agazapados secretos y enfrentamientos. Un niño que siente atracción hacia la nueva esposa de su padre, un viejo poeta que ha perdido para siempre la ilusión y una joven que no entiende las maniobras amorosas de un caballero delirante que intenta seducirla. Estos son solo algunos de los sorprendentes personajes creados en estas páginas por una de las mejores escritoras contemporáneas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new book by the great Brazilian author, winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the 2014 Íberoamerican Critical Eye Prize. The nine tales in The Husband’s Shirt present Nélida Piñon at the peak of her narrative. Her profound, elegant style immerses readers in a fascinating world of the lights and shadows of family relationships. In each story, in each home, await hidden secrets and conflicts. A boy who feels attracted to his father’s new wife, an old poet who has lost hope forever, and a young woman who doesn’t understand the romantic maneuvers of a frenzied gentleman who is trying to seduce her. These are just a few of the surprising characters that inhabit the pages of this anthology, written by one of the best contemporary authors and Prince of Asturias Prize winner.

La camisa del marido / The Husband?s Shirt (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Alfaguara

La república de los sueños

Un libro único, íntimo y revelador, que recoge el pensamiento de la escritora brasileña ganadora del Premio Príncipe de Asturias. Pocos escritores brasileños dominan el arte de la palabra como Nélida Piñon, una creadora siempre exuberante en todas sus formas de expresión: en la novela, en el relato o en el ensayo, del que este volumen es un claro ejemplo de talento. La épica del corazón nos muestra el vivo interés de la autora por la tradición literaria latinoamericana y su profundo conocimiento de la misma. Allí están sus maestros y sus escritores admirados, como García Márquez. Pero en este libro Piñon también abarca todo un continente de cuestiones, de ideas, de afectos, de pasiones y, ¿por qué no?, de obsesiones. Siempre a través de la literatura, la escritora se enfrenta a la laxitud moral de hoy en día defendiendo el lugar fundamental de las culturas que los tiempos contemporáneos quisieron asfixiar y celebrando así su resistencia. «Son ellas las que me llevan a vagar por el mundo con la imaginación.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A unique, intimate and revealing book that portrays the thoughts of the Brazilian writer, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award. The Epic of the Heart shows us the author's vibrant interest in--and deep knowledge of--Latin American literary translation, as well as her teachers and admired writers, like García Márquez. But in this book, Piñon also tackles an entire continent of issues, ideas, affections, passions, and obsessions. Always through literature, the writer tackles our current lax morality, defending the fundamental place of cultures that modern times have tried to suffocate and thus celebrating their resistance. "They are what lead me to roam the world with my imagination."

La épica del corazón / The Epic of the Heart (Spanish Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

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