Crónicas inexplicables

December, 2004. Gumaro de Dios kills the time with El Peln. The heat is suffocating, the mosquitoes hum. The afternoon breaks out and sometime in the night a voice whispers in the Cannibal's ear. The residents of the Mayan Riviera find out about it at dawn. The rumor that travels across the streets freezes blood and skin of one person after another. He scratched the bones and even used the viscera, with which he prepared an exquisite broth. The trial is succinct. Nobody wants to listen to the Cannibal. He is a butcher, a dangerous criminal, a repellent being. Alejandro Almazn approaches...

At first, a little girl is thrilled when her parents bring home her baby brother, but soon jealousy takes over. Her mother helps her overcome her resentment in this story that many readers will be able to relate to.

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Este es el gran libro sobre las jineteras, como llaman en Cuba a las mujeres que ejercen el comercio sexual en un país en el que se dice que la prostitución está prohibida, pero donde se aplica la política de hacer la vista gorda. Es fruto de una investigación de casi diez años, en archivos y documentos amarillentos y empolvados, y entre las mismas jineteras, proxenetas, policías corruptos, taxistas, agentes turísticos, dueños de burdeles clandestinos y traficantes de droga. "Existe un mundo oscuro, sórdido, siniestro, asqueante y sucio en la Cuba nocturna, que se rige por sus...

Una fuerza misteriosa rapta a Raquel y Eric y los arroja a otro mundo. Como miles de niños antes que ellos, los dos hermanos han sido secuestrados por la Bruja para ser convertidos en siervos obedientes. Pero ahora la Bruja se ha encontrado con un verdadero rival. Traducido a catorce idiomas.