Amanecer de hielo

This is an anthology of first time writers from Argentina, expressing how travel has changed their life. The authors have tried to connect experience of wind in the face with that of their ideological notions. Can travel help in something as simple as meeting your future life partner? Can travel change into something nerve wrecking and damaging? You will have to read the whole anthology to know more!

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...

Beneficio Duran is like the wild lava capped mesa where he lived all but the last two years of his eighty-three. They are both remnants of the past. Black Mesa survived eons of erosion by its had basaltic cap--Beneficio survived by living with the pride and rough wisdom of los Castizos, his ancestors. On the mesa, he had been isolated from pressures and forces that were changing New Mexico and the other Hispanics living on and off the land grants. Beneficio discovered his wife, Maria, in the village of Cebolleta at the base of Black Mesa. Maria bore him Philip then died while trying to...

Si se hubieran cumplido las profecas mayas sobre el fin del mundo a finales de 2012 habramos asistido a una convulsin planetaria sin precedentes desde el ltimo Cambio de Era ocurrido, segn quienes creen en ello, 11.500 aos atrs. En esa conmocin se invertiran los polos magnticos y la tierra cambiara el sentido de su rotacin originando tal sucesin de desastres que estaran a punto de acabar con la raza humana: desplazamiento de las placas tectnicas cientos o miles de kilmetros en cuestin de horas, desbordamiento de los ocanos por su propia inercia, tornados y huracanes de violencia jams vista,...