De Adanes y Animales

Wichita, Kansas, 1922: Even though Cora Carlisle is convinced her city is the center of the universe, she has to admit that her life is a bit dull. For this reason, when the Brooks family is looking for someone to accompany their daughter Louise to New York to study dance one summer, she does not hesitate. Louise and Cora could not be more different, but they learn to respect and appreciate each other in the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. Although Cora is fictitious, Louise Brooks became a very famous silent screen actress.

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...

El libro de cabecera de una nueva generación. Amparándose en la coartada del terrorismo islámico, unos políticos teócratas se hacen con el poder y, como primera medida, suprimen la libertad de prensa y los derechos de las mujeres. Esta trama, inquietante y oscura, que bien podría encontrarse en cualquier obra actual, pertenece en realidad a esta novela escrita por Margaret Atwood a principios de los ochenta, en la que la afamada autora canadiense anticipó con llamativa premonición una amenaza latente en el mundo de hoy. En la República de Gilead, el cuerpo de Defred sólo sirve para...

La nueva novela de los hermanos Masot consagra a sus autores como dos de los narradores jóvenes más interesantes del género de la novela histórica en nuestro país. En Las horas del silencio recrean un maravilloso fresco de la España del siglo xx...