El día de la mudanza

Toda vida es una divina comedia, con su purgatorio, su infierno y su paraíso. Todo lo que nos han prometido estaba aquí, deslizándose en el ahora. Balada de las noches bravas es la crónica de una pasión que aspira a superar lo concebible, que sobrevuela traiciones, abominaciones y locura, y que resurge una y otra vez de sus propias cenizas, entonando un intermitente y arrebatado canto a la vida. Esta novela sobre la bravura del amor, sobre sus momentos infernales y sus momentos celestiales tiene como marco la generación que presenció el crepúsculo de las ideologías y creció con el...

Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the...

Un relato breve sobre la sargento primera Gracie Medicine Crow, perteneciente a la Federación del Cuerpo de Marines