"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melanc̤lico? On the trail of this mysterious...

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare...

"San Cristobal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse,...

When Alejandro, known as "El Mono," dies, leaving a young daughter, his brother and his closest friends are concerned about the little girl, since all his assets are tied up in the contract of a soccer player who doesn't make goals.

An artist becomes insane because of his inability to communicate. A novel that tells the story of an artist who becomes insane because of his inability to communicate.

The wild, unpredictable polo champion is restoring his sprawling Argentinian vineyard and he needs a sommelier who can match his exacting tastes . . . Without her sight, Grace's other senses have been heightened. In spite of her inexperience it's made her perfect for the job - and now it's not just the wine that has her mouth watering! Nacho Acosta is expecting meek and vulnerable, but what he gets is fiery independence . . and a sensuality that...

Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten...

"Un relato sobre los �ultimos representantes de una familia olig�arquica venida a menos. Por un lado, Mart�in y Alejandra, que viven una relaci�on tortuosa y atormentada, son incapaces de escapar de un turbio destino: la predisposici�on gen�etica de la familia de ella a la locura. Por otro, narra la historia de un incesto brutal en una atm�osfera que asfixia a sus protagonistas"--Rear cover.