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Moreno-Ruiz nos trae una novela en la que los bajos fondos se funden con el mundo de la alta cultura, todo en salsa de sarcasmo. La cosa empieza con el asesinato de Merixtell, tal vez la persona más cercana al narrador, que es un reportero trotamundos con muchas cosas para contar. Pretoria, Adelaida, Königsberg, Praga... Las ciudades y su gente empiezan a desfilar por su memoria. Atletas, filósofos, hombres y mujeres de lo más diversos se van a encontrar en estas páginas. José Luis Moreno-Ruiz (Santander, 1953 - Madrid, 2021) fue un escritor y periodista español. Sus novelas incluyen...

El señor comisario Pérez, ya jubilado, es un anciano inteligente, culto y de un gran prestigio policial. Su antiguo ayudante, el vicecomisario López, siente una gran admiración por el comisario, a quien le consulta los casos policiales más difíciles.

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud―whose...

Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel is filled with wisdom, sorrow and joy. As the year unfolds, we come to know the small band of loved...