Inmortales

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

La mezcla perfecta entre erotismo y suspense, la vida de heroes anonimos hecha novela, ambientada en el peligroso y fascinante mundo del fuego. Un asfixiante verano azota la provincia de Ourense. Los incendios arrasan los bosques y Miguel, un arrojado bombero, sospecha que puede haber una mano negra detras. Pero hablar de fuegos provocados no es bienvenido en algunas esferas y, obstinado, inicia una peligrosa investigacion por su cuenta. En su periplo se cruza con Irene, una atractiva y temperamental doctora que lo cautiva desde el primer momento. Inmersa en una crisis vocacional, no tiene...

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse...

Cette nuit-là, Denis, le paisible loup du bois de Fausses-Reposes, s’aperçoit avec stupeur qu’il s’est transformé en homme. C’est une nuit de pleine lune, et il va vivre dans Paris des aventures singulières... Tout l’art de Boris Vian consiste à retourner ou subvertir toutes les conventions – celles de la société, celles de la littérature –, que ce soit par l’humour, la farce ou le fantastique. Ainsi, il suffit qu’un mystérieux brouillard s’abatte sur une ville (L’amour est aveugle) et ses habitants, dans l’impossibilité de se voir ou de se reconnaître, vont ...