Mario Vargas Llosa

Anna Kushner

Ruben Gallo

Conversation at Princeton

Gonçalo M. Tavares

In a terrifying and grimly humorous examination of the human condition, the stories of three characters converge: Ernst Spengler, who is about to throw himself out his window; Mylia, a terminally ill woman on her way to church; and Hinnerk Obst, who has been told by neighborhood children that he looks like a murderer and who walks the streets with a loaded gun. Original.

Jerusalem

Leonardo Padura

A Novel

The Transparency of Time

Guillermo Rosales

Presents the late author's novella "Leapfrog," which charts the experiences of a young boy living in postrevolutionary Cuba, as well as five short stories.

Leapfrog

In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum. The Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbour with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of the lost masterpiece. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in 17th-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world.

Heretics

Anna Kushner

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