La ciudad del rey

Cuando descubrió que había heredado casi la mitad del imperio Bastiani, Ruby Clemenger supo que su vida estaba a punto de complicarse... sobre todo tras la llegada de Zane Bastiani, el hijo del fallecido dueño del millonario negocio de perlas.Zane deseaba librarse de Ruby cuanto antes, pues pensaba que era la amante de su padre y, como buena cazafortunas, estaba seguro de que podría comprarla fácilmente.Pero Ruby no se vendía así como así, su precio era muy alto... incluso para un millonario. Al darse cuenta de que no podía pagar lo que ella pedía, Zane decidió convencerla... a...

A través de sus cuentos basados en hechos históricos, Antonia Cortijos describe con maestría la intriga, la pasión, los celos y las mezquindades humanas.

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Part political expose, part literary tour-de-force, SINCHI is a gory exploration of one of the darkest periods in Peru's history. Bartoli skilfully sews Peru's mythological history in with the atrocities of the 1980-1993 guerrilla war between American-funded paramilitaries and the insurgent Sendero Luminoso. Weaving an ambitious historical thread that ties together subjugators and their victims across centuries, Bartoli's narration dances between black humour and ferocious accusation as he relates his own account of a civilisation-shattering violence kept...