El honor del trige y la valentía del dragon

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

El amante de la psicoanalista, la primera novela de Mario Mactas, revela además a un narrador extraordinario

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a ‘detective consultant’ in London in the late nineteenth century, known for his intelligence and his skillful use of observation and deductive reasoning to solve difficult cases. This type of investigator, known for his extreme intelligence, influenced the majority of later detective fiction. He is the creator of his own profession ‘detective consultant,’ which consists of helping clarify the particularly difficult cases to the official detectives of Scotland Yard, or private detectives, like is the...

Quienes acudan a este libro para encandilar a nuestros profesores, amigos o amantes con disquisiciones librescas adquiridas sin esfuerzo, habrán cometido un error: el ensayo de Bayard es en realidad una estimulante reflexión a propósito de qué significa la lectura. Para resolver ese enigma, se impone como tarea desenmascarar uno de los tabúes sociales más extendidos: el hecho de que en algún momento de nuestras vidas todos hayamos fingido haber leído un libro que nunca fue abierto. El autor no sólo asume con naturalidad nuestra sempiterna condición de no-lectores (por mucho que...