Barcelona negra

La storia di un cittadino smarrito nei labirinti del capitale. Un thriller ambientato nel mondo delle banche, che racconta la sconcertante fragilità del sistema finanziario. «Nei romanzi di Suter sempre prevalgono l’ironia, il fascino, una indiscutibile eleganza. Probabilmente uno dei migliori autori contemporanei» (Le Nouvel Observateur).

This novel written in Spanish by costarrican novelist Alexander Obando offers a wide fragmented view of the universe in an impressive collage of genre fiction (sci-fi, erotica, terror, suspense) and erudite history and literary references. It has been described as David Mitchell ́s Cloud Atlas meets Burrough ́s Naked Lunch and Joyce ́s Ulyses. Literary critics purport it to be the first postmodern centralamerican novel.

En La hija del mar Rosalía de Castro reflexiona sobre el temperamento femenino. Se trata de un relato reivindicativo en el que dos mujeres defienden su "honra" en medio del acoso masculino.

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...