Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.

Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.

Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.

This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende’s inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

On the first day of the century, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its portents: the mysterious reappearance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city—Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise—Pajarita begins a lineage of independent women. Her daughter Eva, intent on becoming a poet, overcomes an early, shattering betrayal to embark on a most unconventional path toward personal and artistic fulfillment. And Eva’s daughter Salomé, awakening to both her sensuality and political convictions amidst the violent turmoil of the late 1960s, finds herself dangerously attracted to a cadre of urban guerilla rebels. 

From Perón's glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Montevideo butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, The Invisible Mountain celebrates a nation’s spirit, the will to survive in the most desperate of circumstances, and the fierce and complex connections between mother and daughter.

The Invisible Mountain

Los cuentos de la selva fueron escritos por Quiroga para sus hijos y se transformaron, con el tiempo, en lectura de cabecera de los chicos dentro y fuera de la escuela. estos ocho relatos han estado vigentes por su mezcla de aventura, peligro y paisajes exóticos de la selva misionera, y el bosque chaqueño. Tortugas, flamencos, abejas, gamas, yacarés, todos los animales son personificados por Quiroga y se vuelven protagonistas de historias fascinantes.

Cuentos de la selva

Esta obra coloca en clave literaria aquella reflexion que Benedetti trabajara en El pais de la cola de paja: la profunda crisis de un pais que se debate entre ser y parecer; ser un foco de corrupcion encarnado en la figura del empresario de prensa, magnate y politico Edmundo Budio y querer parecer la Suiza americana.Gracias por el fuego es una historia de ignominia y de muerte, a la vez que la cronica de una impotencia colectiva: el inventario de una crisis moral y la valentia para denunciarla.Con un estilo inconfundible, Benedetti ofrece la posiblidad de participar con pasion en la Historia: los lectores lo saben y hacen de la complicidad su mejor gesto de agradecimiento.

Gracias por el fuego

Horacio Quiroga's short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him. They span many fiction genres; jungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, and morality tale- and possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.

Horacio Quiroga was a master storyteller and author of over two hundred pieces of Latin American fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and London. Like his stories, his own life from his birth in Uruguay to his suicide in Argentina was filled with adventure, tragedy, and violence.

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

In the tradition of Roberto Bolaño’s "Savage Detectives", a celebrated classic and heart-wrenching story of a family torn apart by the forces of history, by one of Latin America’s most celebrated writers

"Springtime in a Broken Mirror" revolves around Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, who was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family and try to stay sane.

Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother—Santiago’s beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela—struggle to adjust to a life in exile.

Published now for the first time in English, "Springtime in a Broken Mirror" tells with tenderness and fury of the indelible imprint politics leaves on individual lives. Generous and unflinching, it asks whether the broken bonds of family and history can ever truly be mended. Written by one of the masters of the Latin American novel, this is the story of a fractured continent, chronicled through the lives of a single family.

Springtime in a Broken Mirror

London 1856: Professor Adolphus Hatton befindet sich in seinem rechtsmedizinischen Labor, als er von Inspector Adams von Scotland Yard zu einem Tatort gerufen wird. In einem Haus, das mit exotischen Sammlerstücken vollgestopft ist, liegt die ermordete Lady Bessingham. Die junge Mäzenin führte einen Salon, in dem sich Künstler, Dichter und Wissenschaftler trafen. Schon bald wird Hatton und Adams klar, dass sie es mit einem komplizierten Fall zu tun haben, der auf perfide Weise mit Lady Bessinghams Sammelleidenschaft zusammenhängt ...

Der Leichensammler

For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission.

They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost.

With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a new one.

Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there’s an upside to a life that’s fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she’ll never forget?

The Upside of Falling Down

Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the Friends of America Writers Award in 1997, this vivid debut, set in Uruguay in the 1960s, charts the toll of political events on a young woman and those close to her, as their democracy is gradually taken over by a military dictatorship.

The Tree of Red Stars

Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she’s been taught isn’t the whole story. And the Academy isn’t what she believes it to be. In this brilliant novel of dazzling ingenuity, Anax’s examination leads us into a future where we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these questions have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technology. What is consciousness? What makes us human? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what special status could humanity still claim? Outstanding and original, Beckett’s dramatic narrative comes to a shocking conclusion.

Genesis

Inhabited by rich, eccentric characters and full of strange and surprising landscapes, this collection of short stories deeply influenced a generation of magical realists.If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I would not be the writer I am today. Because he taught me that the most haunting mysteries are those of everyday life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Piano Stories

Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

The Book of Embraces

“Como en los sueños, en Montevideo las cosas me resultaban parecidas pero diferentes. Eran pero no eran.”
Lucas Pereyra viaja a Uruguay en barco por el día a buscar dólares. Son tiempos de restricciones cambiarias. Tiene ya arreglado un encuentro secreto en Montevideo, pero sus planes pueden fallar.
Encandilado por el recuerdo de un verano anterior y agobiado por un matrimonio que se resquebraja, sueña con escaparse y no volver. ¿Con quién se va a encontrar? Montevideo, esa ciudad idealizada por la distancia, se volverá impredecible.
La uruguaya es una novela inquietante y ferozmente entretenida. Con pulso magistral, Pedro Mairal sostiene la intriga en cada una de sus páginas y demuestra, de modo irrefutable, que es uno de los grandes de la literatura argentina contemporánea.

The Woman from Uruguay

"Lands of Memory" presents a half-dozen wonderful works by one of the greatest yet least-known Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Felisberto Hernández's extraordinary stories have been always greatly prized by other writers, and the two novellas and four stories collected in "Lands of Memory" show why. "Lands of Memory" and "In the Times of Clemente Colling" are two dreamlike novellas, which are carried along like pieces of otherworldly music by odd rhapsodic memories. Curiously haunting, the four stories also included in "Lands of Memory" turn upon small improbable events—small unpredictable, off-the-wall events which turn upside-down a first recital or a salesman's calling. These works have been long overdue for translation into English, and New Directions is pleased to have them in Esther Allen's stunning versions.

Lands of Memory

Quem de nós - Dividido em três partes, Quem de nós retrata o triângulo amoroso entre Miguel, Alicia e Lucas. Em "Miguel", o leitor é testemunha da vida conjugal de Alicia e Miguel, e assiste à sua separação. Na segunda parte, a narrativa adquire a forma epistolar, e Alicia explica ao ex-marido as razões de sua partida. Por fim, a parte dedicada a Lucas (um escritor) é apresentada como se fosse um conto, no qual personagens de sua ficção dialogam com os do triângulo amoroso de Benedetti.

Quién de nosotros

"‘Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. […] But it’s quite possible that if I go on writing – as I usually do – with no plan, although this time I know very well what I want to say, things will start to take shape, to come together. I can feel the familiar taste of a literary adventure in my throat. I’ll take that as confirmation, then, and start describing what I think was the beginning of my spiritual awakening – though nobody should expect religious sermons at this point; they’ll come later. It all began with some ruminations prompted by a dog.’"
A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant, though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating – getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer, buying an armchair, or rather, two: ‘In one, you can’t possibly read: it’s uncomfortable and your back ends up crooked and sore. In the other, you can’t possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit up straight and pay attention, which makes it ideal if you want to read.’
Insomniacs, romantics and anyone who’s ever written (or failed to write) will fall in love with this compelling masterpiece told by a true original, with all his infuriating faults, charming wit and intriguing musings.

The Luminous Novel

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.

When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, "Ariel". Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet’s brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including "Ariel" and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work throughout the generations.

Ariel

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence. Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Am�ricas prize (1978). The Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those "whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression."

Days and Nights of Love and War

A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form.

Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire, #2)

For many Americans, the words ‘American' and ‘Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family—the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbors, they end up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans. They are challenged by both Muslims who speak for them and by Americans who reject them. In this moving memoir, Idliby discusses not only coming to terms with what it means to be Muslim today, but how to raise and teach her children about their heritage and religious legacy. She explores life as a Muslim in a world where hostility towards Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole purpose is to vilify and spread fear about all things Muslim. Her story is quintessentially American, a story of the struggles of assimilation and acceptance in a climate of confusion and prejudice—a story for anyone who has experienced being an "outsider" inside your own home country.

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America

Un hombre llega a una localidad de montaña a la que acuden a curarse los tuberculosos. De manera firme se niega a asumir esa vida de sanatorio que impregna de esperanza toda la ciudad... Su única ocupación son las dos cartas que recibe con regularidad y que le sirven de contacto con el mundo exterior.

Los adioses

`Montevideanos` apareció en 1959 y fue la primera obra narrativa de Mario Benedetti que obtuvo un amplio reconocimiento por parte del público y la crítica. El título tal vez recuerde a `Dublineses`, de Joyce, pero, como señaló Ángel Rama en su oportunidad, `sus personajes no son dublineses sino auténticos uruguayos vistos por la mirada tierna e irritada a la vez, crítica y por momentos temerosa, del autor`

Uruguay

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

The Invisible Mountain

Carolina De Robertis

Cuentos de la selva

Horacio Quiroga

Gracias por el fuego

Mario Benedetti

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

Horacio Quiroga

Springtime in a Broken Mirror

Mario Benedetti

Der Leichensammler

D.E. Meredith

The Upside of Falling Down

Rebekah Crane

The Tree of Red Stars

Tessa Bridal

Genesis

Bernard Beckett

Piano Stories

Felisberto Hernández

The Book of Embraces

Eduardo Galeano

The Woman from Uruguay

Pedro Mairal

Lands of Memory

Felisberto Hernández

Quién de nosotros

Mario Benedetti

The Luminous Novel

Mario Levrero

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

Days and Nights of Love and War

Eduardo Galeano

Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire, #2)

Eduardo Galeano

Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America

Ranya Tabari Idliby

Los adioses

Juan Carlos Onetti

Montevideanos

Mario Benedetti