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«El escritor intenta caminar, busca apoyarse en brazos de fantasmas, cree leer al mundo, vive y sueña de libros… y al desplomarse, vuelan las páginas que ha llenado de palabras como un reguero de piedras y piedritas. Habrá quien las deje esparcidas para que la amnesia convierta esas historias en polvo y hay de pronto el milagro de que alguien reúne esos cuentos para construir un pequeño castillo de imaginación y memoria. Puro cuento y cuentos puros, que fueron arena para volverse vidrio, ventana o espejo

When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. The isolated desert town was the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, the companion of wraiths and ghosts. Yet it may also hold the secret to making peace with a dark family history and a complicated personal and cultural identity.

A través de cien montañas es un relato asombroso y conmovedor de migración, pérdida y hallazgo; de cómo dos mujeres -- una nacida en México y la otra en los Estados Unidos -- encuentran que sus vidas coinciden de la manera más improbable. Luego de una tragedia que la separa de su madre...

In these three novellas, children navigate profound changes that reshape their families and their understanding of the world. A young boy finds meaning through soccer as his mother's illness and death transforms their family's rhythms. In Bogotá, a girl discovers her mother's sewing machine can speak, revealing protective magic woven into their clothes as they plan a daring escape. And in a story that blends reality with wonder, two siblings unlock the mystery of their grandmother's hidden identity through a dimensional window above their kitchen door.

Dramatic comedy. Cleo González believes her husband is cheating on her and plans to kill him at a Halloween party, but there are three other men wearing the same costume. Meanwhile, her sister Virginia (Woolfie) González wants to be a normal person, but how can she be, if apart from being the daughter of the González García family, she has visions with the ghost of her grandmother. As Cleo prepares for the celebration, she and other people will have a trip to the past that will help them understand the present.

In this brilliant new collection of poems, National Book Award winner Martín Espada offers narratives of the forgotten and the unforgettable. The poems in Jailbreak of Sparrows reveal the ways in which the ordinary becomes monumental: family portraits, politically charged reports, and tributes...

A literatura argentina tem em "O matadouro" ("El matadero", no original), de Esteban Echeverría (1805-1851), escrito entre 1838 e 1840, o que é considerado o primeiro texto literário argentino. A obra versa sobre o regime de Juan Manuel de Rosas, que...

Como é viver à sombra de um mito? Ou, pior, de um legítimo rei do rock: John Lennon. Essa é a sina de Juan LMK, que pelos desígnios do acaso nasceu no mesmo dia, hora e hospital onde morria o gênio dos Beatles. Estamos em 2020, e a banda de Juan, a...

Esta novela explora la vida de una familia colombiana a lo largo de tres generaciones, ilustrando cómo los temas de arte, propósito y pertenencia evolucionan a través de las experiencias de la migración. La historia está inspirada en mi historia familiar, en una recreación ficticia que comienza con Richard, un joven artista colombiano desafiante en 1900, cuya vida se entrelaza con la de Tita, su esposa. Juntos gestionan un exitoso negocio de arte en medio de la agitación política y finalmente se mudan a Canadá.

1. Você está começando o livro dos começos. 2. Comece por onde quiser. 3. Comece quantas vezes quiser. 4. Você pode escolher um começo ou ser escolhido por um começo. 5. Para o segundo caso, decida um método (fechar os olhos, jogar moedas...

Memorias de Mamá Blanca", publicado em 1929, seria o segundo e último romance de Teresa de la Parra, no qual ela refletia seu caráter distintamente venezuelano e, como em "Ifigenia (Diário de uma jovem que escrevia porque se irritava)" , O conteú...

While vacationing at the Regal Isabela resort in Puerto Rico, attorney Daniel Mendoza witnesses what he suspects is an abduction of a hotel guest. He and his private investigator, Pamela Williams, investigate the suspicious activity to determine what really happened. After the trail goes cold, they both head back to Arizona where his team of attorneys are trying a wrongful death case filed against their client. Daniel, however, never arrives in court. Is he still on the case of the kidnapped guest? Or did something tragic happen?

'Ao ler o manuscrito de Ismael Caneppele que chegou nas minhas mãos, intitulado Os famosos e os duendes da morte, algo tomou conta de mim. As palavras do autor me encontraram e foi sua sensibilidade e poesia que me convidaram a adentrar seu universo. O livro traz em si sentimentos...

Los Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan a un pueblo de la costa argentina y comienzan a regentar un antiguo hotel. Estos dos seres (y sus dos hijos, una niña y un niño más inquietantes y enigmáticos que ellos) producen el efecto de una partícula enfermiza que se introduce en las grietas de una sociedad pequeña y arrasa con su dinámica cotidiana, aparentemente calma. La pareja resulta ser un amplificador de los prejuicios, los deseos ocultos, las supersticiones, los temores y la violencia larvada en muchos de los habitantes del pueblo.

In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. In an atmosphere of constant threat and tense rivalry, they plot against each other and wait to see who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment. Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge. Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different.

Book Riot’s Best New Book Releases A 2025 Latino Book Award Winner, Gold Medal for Best Novel — Historical Fiction — English “A vivid and unprecedented journey into the Spanish invasion of Aztec Mexico.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, acclaimed author of The House of Broken Angels A “wild...

A young woman learns to embrace all the messy imperfections of life and love with some help from her magical family Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women...

Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious.

Las puertas que en esta nueva edición se abren, le dieron paso a mis lectores y oyentes en 1988 cuando esta obra se publicó por primera vez, recogiendo poemas escritos entre 1984 y 1988 en Cali, Colombia. Muchos de estos poemas fueron los primeros que leí en recitales y festivales de poesía. En esta época, después de terminar un trabajo en la Costa Pacífica Colombiana en un programa de desarrollo, fui profesor de biología por tres años en un colegio.

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize A vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and...