Testigo de medianoche

Marco Antonio Marqués es un joven estudiante venezolano que, para su sorpresa y la de todos, ha cosechado un triunfo internacional como autor de novelas de terror. A pesar del éxito editorial y el impacto económico de la novela en su vida, Marco Antonio está lejos de ser un joven feliz, o medianamente en paz. Su vida transcurre dentro del desafío de alinear tres péndulos que sólo un joven residente de un país en crisis debe afrontar. Que son: Aportar por todos los medios posibles a la supervivencia familiar, afrontar las pérdidas forzadas que impone una crisis, como el exilio del...

Tras el espectacular éxito de La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa, Julia Navarro se consagra con esta electrizante novela en la que el lector viajará hasta los tiempos bíblicos pasando por la Europa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Egipto, Siria, Estados Unidos, Italia, Francia, España y el Irak de Sadam. En Roma, un hombre se confiesa: «Padre, me acuso de que voy a matar a un hombre...». Al mismo tiempo Clara Tannenberg, una joven arqueóloga nieta de un poderoso hombre de oscuro pasado, anuncia en el transcurso de un congreso el descubrimiento de unas tablillas que, de ser auténticas,...

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...

While Carmen de Burgos (Almeria 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist, author, translator and progressive feminist intellectual, de Burgos was one of the most widely-read writers of her time. When she died she left a body of work impressive both in its quantity and quality: 12 full length and approximately 57 short novels. "La rampa" (1917) is the second full-length novel by Carmen de Burgos, and is dedicated -to all of the throngs of wounded and lost women who have come...