Best of
Latin-American-Literature
1995
Odes to Opposites
Pablo Neruda - 1995
For example, Ode to Fire is coupled with Ode to Rain. Each ode is written is Spanish and English and is prefaced by pencil drawings. Neruda won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake
Elena Poniatowska - 1995
Written by a Mexican journalist, this book chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit.