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The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

Lady Amelia solo ha conocido la vida acomodada de la aristocracia inglesa de mitad del siglo XVIII, pero cuando primero su madre y después su padre fallecen, se encuentra sola, aflijida y... menor de edad. Su tutor, un tío americano, le ha ordenado viajar a su plantación, donde deberá quedarse durante al menos dos años, que será cuando sea mayor de edad. Con la ayuda de lady Grace y Lady Sarah, lady Amelia logra que su tío esté de acuerdo en darle cuatro semanas para arreglar sus asuntos y, sin que él lo sepa, encontrar un lord inglés con el que casarse para poder quedarse en su...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is...

Este libro, es un encuentro de la escritora mexicana con los hombres y las mujeres que han marcado elmundo de las letras en iberoamrica, como: Octavio Paz, Isabel Allende, Angeles Mastreta, Emilio Carballido, Mario Benedetti, Juan Rulfo, Mario Vargas Llosa y Juan Jos Arreola.