Venganza: Una Historia de Rojo: Una Novela de Policías, Crímenes, Misterio Y Suspense

Himno al erotismo, cantado por múltiples voces, con delicado buen gusto y sabrosa elegancia. Una muestra de la capacidad prometedora de la nueva generación de escritores.

Inscribed in the rich fantastical tradition of Romanian literature while communing with other traditions, this book uses fantasy to denounce, in a covert manner, the grotesqueness of existence within a totalitarian state. The four stories included belong as much to fantastical literature as they do to testimony writing, the narrative combining as it does the confessional tone of a realistic journal with incursions from a visionary imagination. Rediscovered in 1977 after having been rejected by Romanian censorship due to its antisocial tendencies, this was the first book of short stories...

Esta es la historia de Toscano y Paula, dos almas gemelas que no se conocen de mucho, pero que se intuyen demasiado. Toscano muere y descubre que, para entrar en el cielo, poco importa lo que hizo en vida, sino más bien cómo lo vende. Paula, una víctima más del despecho y el desengaño, empieza a creer que el hombre de sus sueños se encuentra detrás de muchas primeras citas, siempre y cuando les regale un final feliz. Entre ellos, la única barrera que —dicen— es insalvable (morirse), el único fin que justifica todos los medios (quererse) y un individuo llamado Max. Risto Mejide,...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...