Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with Penguin Classics
Celebrate Latine Heritage Month all year long with books by Latine and Hispanic authors whose stories redefine identity and shape culture!
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to life with art commissioned specifically for this volume, The Book of Imaginary Beings will delight readers of classic fantasy as well as Borges's many admirers.
Collected Fictions
Selected Poems
Selected Non-Fictions
A Nation of Women
Luisa Capetillo
The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of the gathering fervor of world politics, A Nation of Women embraces the humanistic thinking of the early twentieth century and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." —Dave Eggers, The New Yorker
A new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has influenced generations of writers around the world.
Mr. President
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
At once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror.
Men of Maize
Miguel Ángel Asturias
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.
The Book of Emma Reyes
Emma Reyes
An extraordinary account of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood defined by uprootedness and migration. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, this astonishing memoir describes in painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Discovered only after Reyes’s death, it reveals a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long.
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura.
Explosion in a Cathedral
Alejo Carpentier
One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra.
The Apprentice Tourist
Mário de Andrade
A playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon. Rife with shrewd observations and sparkling wit, and featuring more than a dozen photographs, The Apprentice Tourist not only offers an awed and awe-inspiring fish-out-of-water account of the Indigenous peoples and now-endangered landscapes of Brazil that he encounters (and, comically, sometimes fails to reach), but also traces his internal metamorphosis
Latine Reads from Penguin Vitae
In the Time of the Butterflies
Bless Me, Ultima
Before Night Falls
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez, Elizabeth Acevedo
A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez’s modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling, National Book Award–winning novelist Elizabeth Acevedo.
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