Como la seda y el esparto

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," along "Paula y Paulita," "Escenas junto a la muerte" and "Teoria del zumbel," belong to a fiction cycle, unique in the peninsular narrative of those years; novels in which Jarnes experiments with the new forms of metafiction to highlight the existential condition of the human being in the newly technified mass society. "Locura y muerte de Nadie," simultaneously "agonic" and...

Cae la noche tropical Manuel Puig Río de Janeiro, mediados de la década de 1980. En el crepúsculo de sus vidas, dos hermanas argentinas evocan el pasado y departen acerca de los amores de una vecina más joven, también argentina, exiliada política, cuyas experiencias sentimentales conocemos al trasluz de sus chismes. Nada más conmovedor, apasionante y divertido que los diálogos de estas dos ancianas para mostrar hasta qué punto las historias de corazones simples no son más que melodramas. Mirada original y poética sobre la irredimible soledad del ser humano, la última novela de...

Lost among the gaudy, busy streets of Macau, Grace's life is slowly unravelling. Her marriage to Pete, her Australian husband, is fraying and her dreams of having a family seem hopeless. With the heralding of a new year she resolves to do something bold. Something her impetuous Mama might do.

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down to write the invitations to her eightieth birthday party she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have built; but she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.