Vanguardismo y realismo

Diez relatos de diversa temática en los que podrás encontrar historias de amor, de intriga, de historia y suspense.

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...

Algunos de los fantasmas de este libro, se exponen a simple vista en los cuentos. Otros aparecerán después de que hayas terminado el texto. Hay fantasmas tan pequeños como insectos o tan enormes como las incongruencias de la memoria y el tiempo. Fantasmas del pasado y de lo que nos podría suceder en algún futuro incierto. Fantasmas tecnológicos, lógicos, y sobre todo paradójicos. Este es un libro de paradojas. De situaciones imposibles pero contadas como si pudieran serlo. En este libro hay relatos fantásticos y también otros tan realistas que hasta dan miedo. Hay horrores y...

Eager for action in the numbing wake of 9/11, V.I. Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stakeout for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. When lights come on at the empty family estate in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V.I. out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the pond. The man is an African-American; when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal who stumbled to a drunken death, his family hires V.I. to investigate.