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Adriana V. Lopez

Your March Checklist for Latino Books
February 19, 2008

As promised, I want to keep you abreast to new releases and re releases in paperback by Latino, Latin American and Spanish authors. Here’s a short list of four Latino authors from very different places with books publishing in March. Starting with Restrepo, an author from Colombia, Rodriguez a Cuban-American journalist, Nieves Powell, a New York Puerto Rican, and finally Samartin, a first generation Cuban-American. Be sure to keep these talents stocked on your shelves alongside their Spanish-language editions when they're available.

Delirium  by Laura Restrepo's. Novel (trade paper conversion). Random House.  Also available in Spainish from Alfaguara: Delirio.
Is it possible to remain sane in an insane place? Colombian author Laura Restrepo's sixth novel, which won the 2004 Premio Alfaguara and the 2006 Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy, provides a multifaceted answer to this question.

Daughters of Juarez by Teresa Rodriguez. Non Fiction (trade paperback conversion).Simon & Schuster.
Also available in Spanish from S&S: Las hijas de Juarez.

A veteran, award-winning journalist from Univision  and a former New York Times correspondent and true crime writer team up to create the first, major nonfiction work based on the ongoing, international phenomenon of over 300 confirmed female homicides with 600 women still missing, in the bordertown of Juarez, Mexico.

 
Free Style by Linda Nieves-Powell. Novel. Simon & Schuster.

Freestyle by award-winning writer/director/producer Linda Nieves-Powell, is a funny, intelligent and, above all, relevant novel about two thirty-something moms who decide to drop their to-do-lists, revisit their dance club past and dance their troubles away. But when one of them is diagnosed with breast cancer, they must decide whether to stay in the past or move on with their lives.

 
Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin. Novel. Simon & Schuster.

The second novel from critically-acclaimed author of Broken Paradise, Tarnished Beauty is a moving story of friendship between a young woman from Mexico and Senor Peregrino, an elderly man from  Spain .  Both of their lives change when he shares the story of his pilgrimage as a young man along the Road to Santiago.

Posted by Adriana V. Lopez on February 19, 2008 | Comments (1)