Agustín de Lançarote

La caída en julio de 1714 del "puente más lindo de todo el Perú" y la consecuente muerte de cinco viajeros, inducen a fray Junípero, fraile franciscano, a iniciar una investigación sobre las causas del accidente. Y poco a poco, durante seis largos años, por caminos inesperados, irán entretejiendo la historia, para al final, quedar a las puertas de la muerte en la hoguera. La emocionante peripecia y la colorista reproducción del Perú de los vireyes, bajo el Imperio español no ocultan, sin embargo, una aguda exposición de lo que es esencialmente una cuestión metafísica: la...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain's colonial losses, when Spain's male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain's fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain's place in the international arena (emphasizing the...

Una novela lúcida y conmovedora, con la dinámica de las novelas de aventuras, pero que también es una profunda reflexión sobre la complejidad del alma humana.

In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the center of the collection is a series of stories narrated by a young American woman in the wake of a divorce; wry and shy but never less than open to the world, she recalls the places and people she has been close to, the dreams she has pursued and those she has left unfulfilled. Interspersed with...