Carlos Y El Zorrillo

Funny things begin to happen when Carlos, a young boy who lives on a farm in New Mexico, refuses to take a bath. His right ear starts to itch and he knows something is growing in there.

The plot of The Empty Region takes the reader from the military camps of holy warriors in Pakistan, to the security corridors of the CIA and the FBI. It’s a fascinating puzzle inhabited by historical characters, including Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, as well as officials aware of the tragedy´s secrets. Szichman leads us along the terminals where the air pirates of al-Qaida consummated their tragic ritual, makes us travel on the airplanes, turned into guided missiles, and recreates the 102 minutes when the burning towers of the World Trade Center became hell on earth. Although...

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When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret which recollects the events of 1991. Seventeen years later, Vladan's discovery that he is the son of a fugitive war criminal sends him off on a journey around the Balkans to find his elusive father. The story of the Borojevic family strings and juxtaposes images of the Balkans past and present, but mainly deals with the tragic fates of people who managed to avoid the...

En esta antología realizada por Andrés Sánchez Robayna, la más completa que se conoce hasta la fecha, queda bien acotado el espacio poético que José μngel Valente ha sabido crear en más de cuarenta años de oficio: tras cada pieza escogida, desde el primer poema hasta la última de sus composiciones, late esa percepción de la poesía como conocimiento en la cual el poeta es el mago que hace aparecer la realidad mediante el mismo acto de la escritura. La palabra en sí es la travesía reveladora, no el medio de comunicarla. La selección de Andrés Sánchez Robayna contiene poemas...