El Límite De Los Límites

Impregnada del aliento de las grandes sagas, Las cenizas del exilio es una novela extraordinaria y un canto al valor de las mujeres cuyo feroz deseo de vivir vence a la miseria, la guerra y la muerte. Lea Soler es una joven luchadora y decidida que vive con los suyos inmersa en la miseria rural de la España de principios del siglo xx. El estallido de la Gran Guerra le proporciona la esperanza de la emancipación social en los viñedos del Mediodía francés. Frustrada por la imposibilidad de progresar a pesar de sus esfuerzos, en 1936 convence a su marido y a sus hijos de volver a España,...

Este volumen reúne tres narraciones de media distancia, precedidas del ensayo "Elogio de la media distancia", donde Volpi realiza una cartografía de este género único que combina la "paciencia de novelista con la agilidad del cuentacuentos". Existe un territorio difícil entre el cuento y la novela al que ni siquiera se le puede dar nombre. Jorge Volpi demuestra con estas tres historias que es uno de los maestros en ese género impreciso del relato de largo aliento. Entre la novela y el cuento existe un territorio difícil de nombrar, difuso, híbrido. Jorge Volpi lo ha denominado "media...

Can a grandmother's love ward off a curse that's haunted her family for four generations? When three-year-old Sonny witnessed his father's brutal murder, he didn't know a curse haunting the men in his family was to blame. But his grandmother, Constance Jackson, did. For 20 years, Constance clung to her abusive marriage and church hoping that she could save her son. But hope and prayers were not enough, and her son died an unnatural death just like four generations of Jackson men before him. Now, she's stuck raising her grandson-Sonny. As time goes on, Constance sees Sonny as a chance to make...

From the author of The Good Earth, an "Oprah's Book Club Selection." On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife, and thus arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, which changes the life of all that surround her. On the fringes of WWII the family is at crossroads, facing betrayal, communism and Western thought, and underlying all, the quest for...