De vuelta a casa

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

En la inefable ciudad de Haos, famosa en el mundo entero porque todo funciona un poco al revés, Cristal y Charles son dos trasnochadores ladrones que deciden llevar a cabo uno de esos golpes que te quitan de trabajar —a no ser que seas uno de esos locos que lo hacen por placer—, pero que acabará por poner en su contra a los habitantes más particulares de cuantos se podrían encontrar.

Nuria pierde su maleta nada más aterrizar en Londres. Lo que no imagina es que esa pequeña desgracia será el desencadenante de una aventura en la que se verá implicada junto a un turbio funcionario diplomático, un embajador con fama de don Juan, dos detectives fuera de onda, un policía que quiere ser Sherlock Holmes, un pacífico vagabundo y un autorretrato de Francisco de Goya. Una multitud de divertidos personajes que se refugian en este escondite inglés convertido en un juego lleno de humor e intriga, con el mismo ritmo trepidante que su autor ya demostró en su anterior novela,...

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