Cosas de Hombres

Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman and Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind locked doors a very different story emerges; as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge of control and jealousy has crept in. The cruelty she experiences at Jack's hands leaves no bruises, no scars, only the wounds of fear, humiliation and isolation. Maddy's journey to healing begins when the President's wife offers her the opportunity to join her newly-formed Commission on Violence against Women. There Maddy ...

As an untried priest, Sayo learns he is to be like no other priest before him. His man god father, Zandar, he learns the new language of writing. He also learns he will find the joy of his heart and know of the love that surpasses any others. Noya is but a child when her parents die and she is forced into a life of servitude as a slave to the high priestess, Dostra. At the urging of the man god, Zandar, she becomes part of miracle changing Sayo’s body from boy to man. From that moment on, she relies on him to become her protector and teacher in the art of healing.

Basada en hechos reales, es la odisea de la familia Ellul que emigra desde Malta en 1854 a Constantinopla, donde asiste a las últimas convulsiones de la caída del Imperio Otomano y la llegada de Ataturk, hasta que finalmente en 1941 durante la segunda guerra mundial se ve obligada a abandonar su hogar, iniciando así un periplo que la llevará a la diáspora en un relato sorprendentemente actual. Son los nacionalismos, la xenofobia, la limpieza étnica, la desigualdad de género, la ruina material y moral que, por conveniencias de los poderes del momento, llegan a convertir a inocentes...

El camino de la Santa Muerte es un texto con relatos escenificados en el desértico y bravío noreste mexicano. La "Introducción" narra pormenores de esas colosales tragedias que fueron la Revolución mexicana y la violenta entronización de los ávidos beneficiarios de ese gran evento social. Los "20 relatos mexicanos" siguen el mismo infortunio: desde los años veinte del siglo pasado, con las tempranas andanzas del Capone tamaulipeco, hasta los tiempos actuales cuando campean a sus anchas los billonarios mandamases de los cárteles del narcotráfico y los despiadados capos de los clubes...