La resistencia de la última escama

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed—having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere—is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican...

Doña Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer es una de las mujeres más poderosas, respetadas y temidas de su ciudad. Pero no siempre ha sido así. Isabel La Negra, Isabelita, fue una niña abandonada por su madre, que trabajaba de lavandera, y a los ocho años ya servía como criada en una casa noble de la ciudad hasta que, en su pubertad, el señor quiso meterse en su cama y se vio obligada a trabajar como costurera primero y vendedora de licor ilegal después. La historia de Isabel es la historia de una lucha descarnada por ascender socialmente, sobreponerse a la desgracia y obtener el respeto de los...

Levi Painter Brooks was a nobody before joining the Reapers. All the group asks for in return is unconditional loyalty. That loyalty is put to the test when he is arrested for a crime committed in the name of the club. Melanie has had a hard life. Luckily, she has escaped her hellish existence and has started fresh. She can't seem to stop thinking about the caresses of one particular biker. It all starts so innocently: a lonely man in jail, a few harmless letters...When Painter gets out of jail, Melanie will have to come to grips with that the fact that there is nothing innocent about the...

An inspirational story about love and relationships with our personal past. When her husband dies in an accident, she and her young son return to the town where she was born. There she meets her first love, which revives a past full of secrets and the truth about her own identity and destiny.

Cuentos cubanos del siglo XX presenta veinte cuentos fundamentales en la evolución de la narrativa cubana. La selección ofrece un panorama de gran calidad y diversidad temática. Introducida por un prólogo del compilador donde se definen los rasgos principales del relato y sus tendencias en Cuba, presenta además notas explicativas sobre los autores y los cuentos antologados.