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Far from the preexisting models that deal with the realities of Latin America with a stark, apocalyptic realism or a trivial celebration of the exotic, this novel is radical support for literature devoted to writing, understood to mean the transformation of the everyday experience and as a reflection on the way in which personal, social, and historical stories are constructed. Through one voice constantly interrupted by many others, it tells the story of a man besieged by the need to reconstruct a vague memory from his childhood, while essential elements of his private life collapse with each ...

Erin Fancher tiene dieciséis años. Una mañana, al despertar, descubre horrorizada que su cuerpo no es el que era: todo indica que... ¡está muerta! ¿Está siendo Erin realmente devorada por gusanos o lo que le está ocurriendo es sólo producto de la terrible (y brutal) imaginación adolescente? Una divertida novela sobre la adolescencia, sobre lo duro que es ser adolescente. Pero también es una novela sobre lo complicado que resulta ser tú mismo.

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 ...

Han pasado muchos años y la Inés del Don Juan Tenorio ya es una mujer mayor. Su vivencia en el asilo será la excusa para crear una estructura teatral perfecta a partir de una de nuestras piezas clave de la literatura clásica española.