Las maletas del olvido

This book offers a collection of 24 Hispanic short stories by both male and female authors. Containing an introduction to the Short Story in both English and Spanish, this collection includes a variety of selections that were chosen for their content, style, and cultural contexts. All selections in this anthology, written by authors from Spain, Cuba, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Colombia, and the United States, demonstrate the common themes of social hierarchy, the power of the imagination, human psychology, gender...

Una novedosa visión de la vida de Isabel II, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo. Una autobiografía novelada que, con humor, erotismo y rigor histórico, desvela sus secretos más íntimos. Ésta es la historia de una reina que hizo del amor su oficio, y que vivió por y para el goce. La historia de un mal de la piel que ha de ocultarse, de una pasión prohibida, de un informe que todos quieren poseer; la nómina de los amantes y las intrigas de un siglo que acaba por perderse en sus recovecos y se ve obligado a ceder ante la avalancha del tiempo, igual que los lienzos en favor de la...

Herinneringen van een jonge schrijver aan een naïeve en tegelijkertijd geraffineerde jonge vrouw, wier levensloop hij geleidelijk aan leert kennen.

The book narrates how, in a few months, Amalia transforms from a naive girl to a critical teenager and begins to see the country in which she lives from a new perspective. Amalia is a middle-class high school girl in Mexico from 1994. Attend a very rigid and traditional Catholic school. Along with Luisa, her best friend, Amalia begins to break the rules dictated by society: the parties begin and discover the boys of the opposite sex. Each of the characters in this story: her parents, her cousin Pablo, Luisa, her boyfriend Román, all contribute a small grain of sand in this awakening that...