500,000 Azaleas; paperback /ISBN 1-880684-73-X / $15.95 

The first English edition of a legendary Mexican poet whom Pablo Neruda called "Mexico's García Lorca."    500,000 Azaleas The Selected Poems of Efraín Huerta by Efraín Huerta Translated by Jim Normington Edited by Jack Hirschman “Huerta possessed the rare skill of balancing the poetic craft with precise cultural documentation -- which is what makes this terrific compilation seem so contemporary…the genuine passion reflected in Huerta’s ecstatic use of language never escapes a reckoning with reality -- a major source of its power.”—Publisher’s Weekly

 

 After the Bombs

A funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy		After the Bombs by Arturo Arias Translated by Asa Zatz “ After the Bombs is a sort of bildungsroman run riot. Arias mixes stream of consciousness, lyrical outbursts, Marx Brothers antics, a nuanced, poetic sense of rhythm in his sentence construction, funky gossip, and myth; all with a fine sense of theatricality.” -- Voice Literary Supplement
	After the Bombs is a coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala -- a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book ever could.

hardbound /ISBN 0-915306-88-3 / $19.95

paperback /ISBN 0-915306-89-1 / $10.95

 

 

A searching look into contemporary Vietnam by a highly gifted novelist    Against the Flood by Van Khang Ma Translated by Wayne Karlin, Thanh Hao Phan “Ma Van Khang’s Against the Flood is a fascinating window into Vietnamese society 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War.” -- W. D. Ehrhart Against the Flood presents a vivid picture of scenes from contemporary Vietnamese society, examining the dramatic tensions inherent in a changing society. When it was published in Viet Nam early in 1999, Against the Flood causing a sensation because of its controversial description of sex and politics in that country.  paperback /ISBN 1-880684-67-5 / $15.95

hardbound /ISBN 1-880684-06-3 / $19.95

 

No longer available in our cloth edition, this landmark book is available in paper		Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodríguez “An absolutely unique work: richly literary and poetic, yet urgent and politically explosive at the same time....And what a great story it tells!” -- Jonathan Kozol
	Available in paperback and in Spanish from Simon & Schuster Always Running received the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction, Chicago Sun Times Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction, and named to the Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books and the 1994 New York Public Library “Books for the Teen Age”.