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Bienvenidos a la serie de libros Novelistas Imprescindibles, donde les presentamos las mejores obras de autores notables. Para este libro, el crítico literario August Nemo ha elegido las dos novelas más importantes y significativas de Horacio Quiroga que son Anaconda y Historia de un amor turbio. Horacio Quiroga fue un cuentista, y poeta uruguayo. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vívida, naturalista y modernista. Sus relatos a menudo retratan a la naturaleza bajo rasgos temibles y horrorosos, como enemiga del ser humano. Fue comparado con el estadounidense Edgar Allan...

Este libro es una obra de ficción y cualquier parecido con una persona, viva o muerta; lugar, evento o suceso, es pura coincidencia. Los personajes y cada línea de esta historia son producto de la imaginación de la autora y se utilizan de manera ficticia.

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with relatives in their crumbling apartment, her dreams of independence are dashed among the eccentric collection of misfits who surround her, not least her uncle Roman. As Andrea's university friend, the affluent, elegant Ena, enters into a strange relationship with Roman, Andrea can't help but wonder what future lies ahead for her in such a bizarre and disturbing world. Translated by Edith Grossman 'One of the great classics of contemporary European literature' Carlos...

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...