Mario: 2118 books

Science fiction stories come in all sizes. In fact, some of the greatest SF stories have been shorts.  This box set contains 10 great science fiction short stories and short story collections. Table of Contents 1. "All the New Tomorrows" by Rebecca M. Senese 2. "Drinker" by Michael...

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo,...

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos...

The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military...

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears– good looks, privilege, wealth–and...

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys “One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.” —Booklist Mario Puzo’s final masterwork....

This novel was set in Castellana Grotte (BA) and Giovinazzo (BA), but it is a fancy piece. The characters and circumstances described are inventions by the author and are intended to give truth to the narration. Any analogy with facts, places and people, alive or defective, is purely random.

A thriller by screenwriter and director Mario Bolduc, introducing his sleuth, the con man Max O'Brien. An international hunt for answers, featuring locales on the Indian subcontinent against a backdrop of war and diplomatic intrigue First English translation of this series, which was originally published in French and sold well in Quebec.

The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on street corners. The title story, "The...

In The Portable Museum, readers will discover extraordinary and unexpected short stories by some of the best authors from Spain and Latin America: Hebe Uhart brings her astute observational skills and dry humor to bear on the world of academia in provincial Argentina in "The Event Planner."...

Forget 15 minutes of fame. What about 15 minutes of pure power? In the future everyone will have a chance to be president. The only catch is your term of office will last only one quarter of one hour. What can anyone, even the most powerful person in the world, do in 900 seconds? One man finds out...

A collection of poems exploring love, marriage, family and the Universe.

A collection of short stories written in fiction and non-fiction. Spans the life of a nonagenarian and include short pieces he's written during his life.

In these three plays—each introduced by the author—Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed novelist and a cultural and political figure in Peru, explores the complexities of Peruvian society and the writer's imagination.