Tártaros de Stockborg

La vida de Ann Bonny y de Mary Read estaba predestinada a ser la de dos mujeres sumisas en un mundo dominado por los hombres. Pero su ansia de libertad y su deseo de vivir nuevas experiencias les enseñó cómo sobrevivir en ambientes exclusivamente masculinos y las arrojó a participar en la aventura más fascinante de su época: Bonny y Read son las dos piratas más astutas que han conocido las aguas del Caribe.

Nunca se dice adiós. No de un modo definitivo. Un encuentro inesperado reunirá a Sylvie Doumier, escritora de novela policíaca, Sasha Abbaci, cantante famoso, y Dimitri Rouzade, fotógrafo freelance, en mitad del Atlántico. Venciendo contratiempos, desconfianzas, persecuciones, sentimientos encontrados, secuestros y vicisitudes varias, se hilvanará una historia que transformará unas sencillas vacaciones en un inquietante periplo. Desde las costas de Brasil hasta Venezuela, pasando por la selva amazónica, los protagonistas vivirán peripecias que ni siquiera en el seno de la civilizada...

Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...