El Papiro de Hobek Sorus

The Mexican War of Independence unfolds through the sixteen-year-old narrator's frank, direct voice. Her vivid descriptions gracefully evoke life in old Mexico.

Una novela apasionante, hipnótica y plena de misterio, por la autora de La habitación. Irlanda, 1840. En un pequeño pueblo se corre la voz de que una niña de once años, hija de una humilde familia de granjeros, lleva cuatro meses sin comer. Anna O'Donnell es inteligente, devota y muy discreta. En un ambiente extremadamente católico, todos la creen una santa. El caso ha llegado a la prensa, y recibe a diario visitas que dejan a la familia limosnas y regalos. Elizabeth Lib Wright, una joven enfermera inglesa, es contratada por un comité de ciudadanos del pueblo para vigilar a la...

Born in the wrong section of Buenos Aires, self-made millionaire Emilio Diaz, looking for a woman to share his life, asks Abby--Lady Abigail Templeton-Burke, who happens to need a place to live--to help him decorate his new London home.

"On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair."