El Diamante Del Rey

Ya no era dueña de sus sentimientos. Royal, Texas, era el lugar ideal para que Ryan Grant, una estrella de los rodeos, cambiase de vida y le demostrase a Piper Kindred que era la mujer de sus sueños. Cuando esta corrió a cuidarlo después de que él sufriese un accidente de coche, Ryan se dio cuenta de que seducir a su mejor amiga iba a ser mucho más fácil de lo que había pensado. Sin embargo, Piper sabía que era probable que Ryan quisiera volver a los rodeos, y que corría el riesgo de que le rompiese el corazón. No podía permitirse enamorarse de un vaquero...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...

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...

Gary, un drama humano, que habla del amor que se inicia y del que no floreció, de las tragedias de la guerra y la esperanza que nace. Christian Follonier llega a casa del señor Finnegan y le encuentra colgando. ¿Qué habrá llevado al huraño anciano a intentar suicidarse?