Memorias y Silencios

Ana de Mendoza, viuda del secretario de Estado de Felipe II y, según los rumores de palacio, favorita del propio rey, fue una dama lo suficientemente temperamental como para perder un ojo en un duelo y para enfrentarse al monarca.

«Un escritor que sorprende por la eficacia de la prosa, que consigue convulsionar al lector ante las contradicciones y las debilidades del género humano» (Guadalupe Nettel, Hoja por Hoja) Enfrentado a una vida miserable como empleado de una empresa, Gabriel Lynch decide rebelarse. Sus odios no tendrán otro objetivo que Constantino, su jefe, el perfecto caballerete empresarial que le ganó el puesto y la mujer. Sin embargo, para que su alzamiento resulte efectivo, el apocalíptico y lenguaraz Lynch tendrá que enfrentarse a su carencia casi total de recursos, pasados y presentes, y a su...

Moving and suspenseful, Lisa Ballantyne’s The Guilty One is a psychological thriller about the darkness in each of us. It explores how we are all tied to our pasts, and what it means to be guilty. Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian who has been charged with the murder of a young boy on a London playground. While examining Sebastian’s life in order to save it, Daniel can’t help but be transported to his own difficult youth spent in foster care—a time when the one he trusted the most was the one who betrayed him… Emotionally wrought, and with an...

El blocao, Novela de la guerra marroqui, by Jose Diaz Fernandez constitutes one of the finest examples of the Modernist-Vanguardist aesthetics in Spanish literature. In a truly elegant way its author achieves his explicit goal to -interest the reader in a different way than the usual: that is, by plunging him into an opaque and tragic world without heroes or outstanding individuals, the way I experienced Morocco then-. Considered by some critics a short novel, by others a collection of stories or descriptions, it complies with the author's express intention to -compose a novel with no...