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| 1. |  | Samba from Vintage Price: $11.21 Customer Review:  If you are interested in learning the true roots of Samba and Brazilian Carnaval(and not just the obligatory blurbs that you see in guidebooks), then this book is an absolute must for you to read. Alma Guillermoprieto does a superb job describing the rich religious, historical, and socioeconomic... |
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| 2. |  | Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America from Vintage Price: $11.21 Customer Review:  I knew that my knowledge of Latin America was wanting, but I had no idea how much I never learned in school nor received from the news media. Guillermoprieto does a solid, dispassionate job of explaining the complicated politics of Latin America and what it means for those countries and their... |
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| 3. |  | The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I was extremely excited to read this book. It is certainly out of date, especially considering the topic is politics in Latin America. Even within fifteen years, things have changed drastically. It is certainly an interesting look at Latin America. Guillermoprieto describes in detail the painful... |
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| 4. |  | Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review:  This book is a marketing tome for communism, a failed system. I was expecting more of a novel, but unfortunately it fell short of my expectations. |
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| 5. |  | Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians from Mariner Books Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  There is a certain kind of well-educated, privileged Russian who loathes his country's Orthodox, monarchist past but is also embarassed and ashamed of its brutal, murderous foray into communism. Tatyana Tolstaya seems just one more cynical, ironic "nihilist lite" voice from Russia who offers... |
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| 6. |  | The Book of Lamentations from Marsilio Publishers Customer Review: This is one of those hidden gems that I was forced to read for a school class. The characters are touching, if a little distant because of the way it is written. The horror at the end of the book builds slowly, and its insights into the clash between the indiginous people of Mexico and the... |
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| 7. | [no image] | EL HOMBRE MOLOTOV.(Nicaragua)(TT: The Molotov man.)(TA: Nicaragua): An article from: Letras Libres from Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. Price: $5.95 | |
| 8. | [no image] | LA OTRA GUERRA DE COLOMBIA.(TT: Colombia's other war.): An article from: Letras Libres from Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. Price: $5.95 | |
| 9. | [no image] | Las guerras en Colombia: Tres ensayos from Aguilar | |
| 10. | [no image] | NOSTALGIA DE CUBA.(TT: Nostalgia of Cuba.)(Reseña): An article from: Letras Libres from Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. Price: $5.95 | |
| 11. | [no image] | Samba from Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1990 | |
| 12. | [no image] | SAMBA. from Unknown | |
| 13. | [no image] | Samba. from Publisher Unknown | |
| 14. | [no image] | La Habana en un espejo/ The Habana in a Mirror (Literatura Mondadori/ Mondadori Literature) from Grijalbo Mondadori Sa Price: $19.72 | |
| 15. | [no image] | Dancing With Cuba A Memoir of the Revolution from Pantheon | |
| 16. | [no image] | Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now from see notes for publisher info | |
| 17. | [no image] | Samba from Jonathan Cape, | |
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