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In his memoir Vivir para contarla (Living to Tell the Tale, 2002), García Márquez explained that the novel was inspired by his grandfather, who was also a colonel and who never received the pension he was promised. However, there is also speculation that García Márquez took inspiration from his experience of unemployment in 1956 after the ...
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Juana de Ibarbourou was an early Latin American feminist. Ibarbourou's feminism is evident in poems such as "La Higuera", in which she describes a fig tree as more beautiful than the straight and blooming trees around it, and "Como La Primavera", in which she asserts that authenticity is more attractive than any perfume.
More Ghost Stories is a horror short story collection by British writer M. R. James, published in 1911.Some later editions include the stories in this collection and the earlier Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), combined in a single volume.
Ardiente paciencia, or El cartero de Neruda, is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta.The novel was published in the English market under the title The Postman.It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman who befriends the real-life poet, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, and is set in the years around the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
First edition (publ. Editorial Rapa Nui) Cocorí is Costa Rican author Joaquín Gutiérrez's most popular children's book, perhaps only topped by La Hoja de Aire.Published in 1947, the short novel ranks among the most outstanding children's stories in Costa Rica, though it is no longer mandatory but suggested reading in primary schools.
Inés of My Soul (Spanish: Inés del alma mía, 2006) is a historical novel by the Chilean author, Isabel Allende.The novel consists of an elderly Inés Suárez writing a memoir of her own life.
The National Library of Chile (Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile) is the national library of Chile.It is located on the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins in Santiago, in a building completed in 1925, though its history reaches to the early nineteenth century before it was relocated to its current home.