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Cuando la autora tropezó por casualidad con un artículo sobre Caroline Ferriday, actriz y filántropa, supo que tenía que contar su historia y la de las mujeres que pudieron recomponer sus vidas gracias a ella.

In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the ...

«Yo celebro que Emma Bovary –ha escrito Vargas Llosa– en vez de sofocar sus sentidos tratara de colmarlos, que no tuviera escrúpulo en confundir el cul y el coeur, que, de hecho, son parientes cercanos, y que fuera capaz de creer que la luna existía para alumbrar su alcoba.» «Será el primer caso, creo, de novela en que se hace burla de la heroína y de su galán. Pero la ironía no perjudica al pathos; al contrario, la ironía subraya el aspecto patético», escribió Gustave Flaubert en el largo proceso de redacción (1851-1856) de La señora Bovary. Alarmados por su «invencible...

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...