El oído miope

El clima está cambiando, cada día asistimos a signos que nos indican que eso está sucediendo. Este es un relato que plantea, de una forma narrativa, este terrible problema al que nos enfrentamos y que no queremos afrontar de forma clara.

"En algunas provincias se le dice camote a la batata, pero también significa enamoramiento, calentura, pasión intempestiva que atrae un sexo a otro", explica Julián Delgado, el protagonista de esta novela. Un joven y exitoso director de cine que se enamora perdidamente de alguien que ni registra su existencia. A partir de ese flechazo –o camote–, ya nada será igual para él, que dedicará sus días a investigar maniáticamente la vida de su enamorado en Internet e irá tras sus pasos para provocar un encuentro, enredándose en el camino en situaciones impensadas y papelones...

Moving and suspenseful, Lisa Ballantyne’s The Guilty One is a psychological thriller about the darkness in each of us. It explores how we are all tied to our pasts, and what it means to be guilty. Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian who has been charged with the murder of a young boy on a London playground. While examining Sebastian’s life in order to save it, Daniel can’t help but be transported to his own difficult youth spent in foster care—a time when the one he trusted the most was the one who betrayed him… Emotionally wrought, and with an...

Through the years, said Gunter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feeling of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been the same: take at fault the complexity of a friend. That shortage is the way of Glands, a novel by Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo where memory takes a lead role. Starting from the narrators own memories, full of humor and melancholy, they outline what forms a friendship filled with sexual adventures, jilted lovers and jealousy, intrigues, painful affairs and death.