Una habitación para abuelita (Nana's New Room)

One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he's never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the end of an era was prophetic.

Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

Este libro –cuenta William H. Hodgson en su introducción a «Los piratas fantasmas»– puede ser considerado el último de un grupo de tres. El primero se publicó bajo el título de «Los botes del “Glen Carrig”»; el segundo, como «La casa en el confín de la Tierra»; por fin, este tercero, completa lo que, quizá, pueda ser considerado una trilogía; pues, aun cuando los tres difieren mucho en los contenidos, todos ellos coinciden en una determinada forma de tratar unos conceptos elementales. Con este libro, el autor cree que cierra una puerta, en cuanto a lo que a él concierne, ...

La obra se compone de un selecto conjunto de documentos históricos y comentarios de historiadores, organizado y sistematizado por el autor. Naturalmente, toda la documentación se refiere al período dominado por la figura de Oliver Cromwell y la institució