In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime -- write a book unlike anything that has ever existed -- a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...

"Ángeles Mastretta narra el inicial amor sumiso de Catalina, una apasionada mujer mexicana, por el general Andrés Ascencio. Asimismo, destaca la progresiva desvinculación de su papel de subordinación conyugal y del engañoso contexto social que la rodea"--Container. A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution.

Un loco pintor argentino asesina la mujer que él ama. Juan Pablo Castel is a painter imprisoned for the murder of Maria Iribarne. During his confinement, he reveals the chain of events that led him to lose control.

"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...