American chica

By Marie Arana, Maria Arana

The author discusses her childhood as the daughter of a Peruvian father and American mother, and recalls the challenges she faced trying to reconcile her two cultures after moving to the United Sta...

American Chica

By Marie Arana

In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Ara...

Cellophane

By Marie Arana

Unexpected consequences are the result for an American engineer, who constructs a paper factory in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, as a plague of truth affects his entire family.

Cellophane

By Marie Arana

Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has...

Lima Nights

By Marie Arana

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Bolivar

By Arana Marie Writer

An authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman draws on a wealth of primary documents to set his life against a backdrop of the explosive tensions of 19th-century South America,...

Bolivar: American Liberator

By Marie Arana

Hardcover

The Writing Life Writers on How They Think and Work

By Marie Arana

Presents reprints of articles by over fifty professional authors in which they discuss aspects of their lives as writers, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Writing Life" column of the "Washin...

La plata, la espada y la piedra: Tres pilares cruciales en la historia de Americ a Silver, Sword, and Stone: The Story of Latin America

By Marie Arana

Una lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad. «Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y M...