Books published by University of Nebraska Press

First comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family

What is "identity"when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro's unmoored life of searching and striving that she's turned to account with literary alchemy in Island of Bones.

Fremont's report documents the opening of the West even as it offers a firsthand look at the making of the American myth

Offers a rare look into the heart of the average socialist trying to survive the Nazis and rebuild a broken world

Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale - however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana Maria Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely celebrated throughout Latin America, frames her complex drama in deceptively simple, straightforward prose.

Charts a moving landscape of people and places over the past twenty years