Sinfonía del destino

This English translation of Entre letras y ladrillos (Bilingual Press, 1996), an autobiographical novel written in the best of Miguel Mendez's baroque and conceptually intense style, evokes one of the most remarkable life histories of this century. Using his own "status as a Mexican Indian, wetback, and Chicano" as a yardstick, he takes us on a personal and collective voyage that culminates on a remarkable day in 1986 when he exchanged his job of full-time construction worker for that of full professor at the University of Arizona.

A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform draped over his wooden desk chair, his sister arguing over the breakfast cereal, the click of his mother's heels as she crosses the kitchen. But when the three of them leave home, driving into a dense summer fog, the morning takes an unmistakable turn. In one terrible moment,...

Ya estaba hecho. Ella era su esposa. La esposa de un caballero silencioso y cauteloso al que todos apodaban “The Fog” (Niebla). Todo lo que lady Cathryn de Greneford había poseído alguna vez —castillo, tierras y gente— era ahora propiedad de él. Pero...

La característica principal de la prosa de Pushkin, en general —y de esta obra en particular—, es la brevedad y simplicidad de la presentación, de la cual no se puede borrar una sola palabra, porque cada una de ellas es necesaria. Cada pequeño detalle conduce a algo relacionado con todo lo demás. Escritos en el otoño de 1830 en la hacienda familiar de Bolshóie Bóldino —uno de los períodos más creativos en la vida del escritor—, los relatos del ficticio Iván Petróvich Belkin constituyen un hito en la consolidación de la prosa literaria rusa. Cada uno de ellos está...