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Edgar Bonjour, after rising to suburban life, gets involved with a drug-trafficking Puerto Rican motorcycle gang from his old neighborhood and is brought down by an affair with a woman in the gang. News of his murder leads to introspection among other Puerto Rican Bonjours.

This is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman's imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in 19th-century Uruguay.

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development.

Addenda et Corrigenda

Takes the readers through Puerto Rico's capital, the city, which is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flaneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled bars and honking automobiles. Here, the author invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels.

Muna Lee was a writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the 20th century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is her biography and a collection of her diverse writings.

Includes short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages). This work provides glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children.