Un amanecer en el camino

TRES MARAVILLOSAS HISTORIAS INÉDITAS PROTAGONIZADAS POR WASHINGTON POE. POR EL AUTOR DE EL SHOW DE LAS MARIONETAS, GANADORA DEL CWA GOLD DAGGER AL MEJOR THRILLER DEL AÑO.

Los cuentos y microrrelatos de La coleccionista de búhos conforman un universo que parte del mundo cotidiano para evaluar el comportamiento humano en un tiempo de crisis de valores, mostrando una fractura entre el orgullo del hombre ante la Naturaleza y la posiblidad de destruirla en busca de poder y riqueza. El autor emplea un elaborado lenguaje para sintetizar eventos y acciones en un tiempo que pasa y que busca rescatar otro perdido o alcanzar un momento futuro en que las relaciones humanas serán más fraternas e igualitarias. Los personajes luchan dentro de sus pequeños mundos, se...

“Extraordinary and evocative, the stellar Anna in the Tropics is a work of art.”—Christine Dolen, Miami Herald This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect of the arrival of a new “lector” (who reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.

In this humorous, offbeat novel, Israel, a salesman at a small store tucked away inside a larger store on the ground level of Madrid's most important shopping mall, accidentally picks up a self-help book at the library that promises he will be a better person if he only adopts a “fluid” lifestyle. So it is that he determines to face life's circumstances with a surrealistic serenity, only to find himself sliding into nihilism. The events of the story take place during a single, feverish day, and offer up the shopping mall as a mirror for all of reality and Israel himself as an archetype of ...