Sergio Ramirez, Author Alfaguara $17.95 (229p) ISBN 978-968-19-0828-7
Ramirez (b. Nicaragua, 1942) made an assured entrance into the Latin American literary scene in 1998 when his novel Margarita, est linda la mar (Margarita, the Sea Is Beautiful, Alfaguara, 1998) won the Alfaguara de Novela prize. His opposition...
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Sergio Ramirez, Author, Leland H. Chambers, Translator . McPherson & Co. $25 (295p) ISBN 978-0-929701-87-5
Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez's fragmented, multinarrated—and at times frustrating—novel recounts a quest to recover a mysterious photographer's past. In 1987 Warsaw, an unnamed narrator becomes obsessed with a photographer...
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Sergio Ramirez, Author, Sergio Ramc-Rez, Author, Sergio Ramrez, Author Curbstone Press $15 (148p) ISBN 978-0-915306-98-5
Nicaraguan writer Ramirez, who was vice-president of his country during the Sandinista regime, effectively portrays Central America as a U.S. fiefdom, an entity run by Yankee ambassadors, bankers and transnational corporate managers who foster a...
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Sergio Ramirez, trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. McPherson & Co. (Ingram, dist.), $30 (516p) ISBN 978-1-62054-014-5
Ramirez, former vice president of Nicaragua, published this noirish tale of murder and deceit while in office in 1988, and it appears in English for the first time in a wonderful translation by Caistor. The story, based on a real series of unsolved...
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Nick Caistor, Translator, Sergio Rambirez, Author, Sergio Ramirez, Author Readers International $14.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-930523-28-2
In ""Charles Atlas Also Dies,'' a young Nicaraguan befriends a U.S. Marine captain, part of the force that hunted Sandino in the '20s and '30s, and with the American's help, travels to New York to visit his hero, Charles Atlaswhereupon he is told...
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Sergio Ramirez, trans. from the Spanish by Daryl R. Hague. McPherson & Co, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-62054-050-3
Ramirez again combines a taut thriller plot with a searing portrayal of Nicaragua and elements of magical realism with the brilliant second volume of his Managua Trilogy (after The Sky Weeps for Me). Former Sandinista guerrilla Dolores Morales’s...
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