An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution - a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom. When the cane fields start to burn, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming.

"Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist. Four of the ten titles in Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated 1970s cycle of hard-boiled novels, which the author originally dubbed neo-polars, or "neo-crime novels," have now appeared in English translation. Manchette is beginning to have a significant following among English-language readers,...

Berl�in, 1931: La joven poeta Ally Keller da a luz a solas a Lilith, una ni�na mestiza. Mientras los Nazis ascienden al poder, Ally sabe que debe mantener a su beb�e oculta para protegerla de la ideolog�ia de la raza aria promovida por Hitler. Pero a medida que Lilith crece, cada vez resulta m�as dif�icil protegerla... Hasta que un d�ia Ally decide poner en marcha un plan desesperado para enviar a su hija a un lugar seguro al otro lado...

"Charlie has received a letter from the Land of the Dead—a dire warning from his grandmother concerning his (and the rest of La Liga’s) impending demise. He doesn’t have much to go on, but according to the letter, a mysterious incident in the past, known only as “The Five Donkeys,” set in motion an unstoppable chain of events that will culminate in the total destruction of the Land of the Living. Left with little alternative, Charlie, Violet,...