Category Archives: AC: Prose

Iracema by José M. Alencar

Posted on March 24, 2014 by racheloriol

Alencar, José M. Iracema: A Novel. 1865. Trans. Clifford E. Landers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Summary: This is one of three novels Alencar wrote in an effort to create a Brazilian national literature. In this one, Iracema is the … Continue reading →

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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

Posted on March 23, 2014 by racheloriol

Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. 1935. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. Summary/Reaction: This is a set of loose stories about a group of friends who live in the hills, called Tortilla Flat, above Monterrey Bay in California. This area is inhabited … Continue reading →

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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Posted on March 17, 2014 by racheloriol

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York: Perennial, 2000. Summary: This large novel follows primarily Eliza Sommers, the illegitimate daughter of an Englishman sea captain living in Valpariso, and a unknown Chilean woman. Eliza is taken … Continue reading →

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Blow Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

Posted on March 8, 2014 by racheloriol

Cortázar, Julio. Blow-Up and Other Stories. 1967. Trans. Paul Blackburn. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Summary: This short story collection contains some of Cortázar’s most famous short stories: Axolotl, House Taken Over, A Yellow Flower, Bestiary, Blow-Up and The Pursuer, … Continue reading →

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Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor

Posted on March 1, 2014 by racheloriol

Villaseñor, Victor. Rain of Gold. 1991. New York: Delta Publishing, 1992. Summary: A story about how two families flee from Mexico during the Revolution and how their children come together to be Victor’s parents: Salvador and Lupe. The time span … Continue reading →

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Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal

Posted on March 1, 2014 by racheloriol

Villarreal, José Antonio. Pocho. 1959. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1970. Summary: The third person narrative follows Richard Rubio, most of the time, who grows up in the Central Valley of California. It describes his trajectory from young, precocious boy … Continue reading →

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Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis

Posted on February 27, 2014 by racheloriol

Davis, Richard Harding. Soldiers of Fortune. 1897. Ed. Brady Harrison. Ontario, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2006. Summary: The protagonist, Robert Clay, is a mining engineer and sometimes soldier, arrives in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. He falls for Alice Langham … Continue reading →

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Posted on February 20, 2014 by racheloriol

Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Summary: This novel is about Oscar Wao, a young nerdy guy who moves from the DR to New Jersey as a young kid. The narrator (later … Continue reading →

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