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Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Español
Description
Un mundo en el que todo cabe, lo impensable y lo que trae el destino, la aventura y el infortunio, una bala perdida en México y una maldición en La Habana, un piloto mercenario y tuerto de nuestra guerra al que la muerte pasaba de largo siempre, y los velados recuerdos de un narrador que se hace más misterioso cuanto más reflexiona y cuenta.
3) Fue
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
Español
Description
Around the year 130 BC, after a long journey, the destinies of young Avi and the mythical Evaristus of Pagala coincide near the Hindu Kush mountains. The encounter, seemingly casual, sparks a tale in which adventure, spirituality, history, and language combine in a boundless literary experience that, gradually, leads to initiation. To get to that point, the reader must delve into the peculiar Portus Macedonum, into the magical isle of Bibakta, and...
5) Canción
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
7) En el Viaje
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un grupo de amigos parte de la Ciudad de México hacia Real de Catorce: Lorenzo, un editor literario con temor a ser leído, conduce un Peugeot sucio y raspado; junto a él viaja Mauro, anarquista pero hijo de uno de los hombres más ricos del país, y en el asiento trasero va Javiera, de una belleza casi tan extraordinaria como su torpeza.
9) El túnel
Author
Series
Language
Español
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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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Suma de letras
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Evangelina Calvet, la protagonista de esta novela, es una escritora joven y rebelde en busca del despertar de la conciencia. Ha realizado una exhaustiva investigación acerca de antiguas civilizaciones avanzadas espiritualmente, así como de los juegos secretos de poder y manipulación con los que se ocultan los conocimientos ancestrales. Cuando está a punto de publicar su libro, es amenazada de muerte, pues sus hallazgos atentan contra el orden...
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Language
English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone...
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los Casey son una familia glamurosa y feliz. Johnny Casey, sus hermanos Ed y Liam, sus preciosas e inteligentes mujeres y todos sus hijos pasan mucho tiempo juntos: fiestas de cumpleaños, aniversarios, fines de semana que comparten fuera... Jessie, la mujer de Johnny, se encarga de organizarlo todo porque no hay nada que desee más que crear recuerdos juntos. Pero ¿qué ocurre cuando esos recuerdos no son lo que esperas? Todas las familias esconden...
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