La naturaleza de las penas

Lost in life, the young protagonists Sara and Matías spend their days drifting and challenging the stability of their comfortable existences. They question the conventions of society with their precocious intellects, their last bastion of defense against what they view as a banal world. Thus, suicide appears hand-in-hand with the vertigo of their lives as the ultimate answer to their growing disappointment. Extraviados frente a la vida, Sara y Matías, los jóvenes protagonistas pasan sus días a la deriva, desafiando la estabilidad de sus acomodadas vidas y las convenciones de una sociedad...

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.

Rafe Johnson había vuelto a Memphis en busca de su pasado, pero lo que encontró superó todas sus expectativas, porque el destino lo llevó hasta Emma Lockwood, una esposa que ni sabía que tenía. Pero cada vez que rozaba su piel, los recuerdos perdidos lo asaltaban, devolviéndole la memoria que un accidente de helicóptero le había robado.¿Amnesia? Emma pensaba que ése era sólo un recurso de las telenovelas, pero no podía negar el amor que veía en los ojos de su esposo, ni el anhelo de su propio corazón...

Constructed like a hall of mirrors, the plot could be that of a thriller. Thanks to his knowledge of the Russian language, a young man finds a job as a private teacher in the house of one of the Russian oligarchs on the Costa del Sol. He soon realises that the family is hiding for a reason that somehow involves the most incredible diamonds he has ever seen. José Manuel Prieto's visual imagery, verbal opulence and literary rigour place him in a league of his own among recent Latin American literature.

La historia se trata de un prestigioso abogado de los Angeles, se enamora perdidamente de una joven estudiante y que con el tiempo se da cuenta que esta chica es hija de su mejor amiga y compañera del buro de abogados.