El Tatuaje de la Concubina

A porn actor and actress escape their past lives in a black Chrysler Imperial along with the woman’s young daughter, driving beneath an inclement sun on a series of identical roads and past inhospitable landscapes. Each one of them narrates their flight to nowhere, but it is a fourth voice—that of a documentary filmmaker fascinated by this story—that communicates just how much of those three characters can exist within each person. In this magnetic novel the past is a nebulous territory from which there is no escape, and although the journey can turn the most impersonal...

Algo despertou no quarto 217 da Clínica de Traumatismo Cerebral. Algo maligno. Brady Hartsfield, o diabólico Assassino do Mercedes, está há cinco anos em estado vegetativo em uma clínica de traumatismo cerebral. Segundo os médicos, qualquer coisa perto de uma recuperação completa é improvável. Mas sob o olhar fixo e a imobilidade, Brady está acordado, e possui agora poderes capazes de criar o caos sem que sequer precise deixar a cama de hospital. O detetive aposentado Bill Hodges agora trabalha em uma agência de investigação com Holly Gibney, a mulher que desferiu o golpe em...

Two inseparable cousins around 12 years of age, Ceporro and Chino, live in the large flat that belongs to their grandmother after the Civil War. Don Rodolfo, who used to go sparring with Uzkudun, gives them boxing classes. Echoes of the Second World War, Field Marshal Rommel and the Nippon Empire provide the backdrop to the story, and then a young German girl, an orphan and a refugee, appears out of nowhere. As well as being a beautiful story about saying goodbye to childhood, its greatest achievement is the voice of its narrator, Ceporro the tireless charlatan.

El capitán veneno es una novela de aventuras decimonónicas de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Ubicada en los motines callejeros de Madrid en 1848, narra la historia de un capitán rebelde que cae herido y se enamora de la joven vuida que lo cuida hasta sanar sus heridas. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón fue un escritor español nacido en Guadix en 1833 y fallecido en Granada en 1891. Sus obras oscilan entre el realismo imperante en su época y un romanticismo tardío que lo emparenta con Byron o Espronceda. Cultivó tanto la novela como el teatro, la poesía o los libros de viaje, alcanzando la...