Érase una vez un príncipe republicano

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...

As Ambrose Bierce said, "home is the only place open all night." And in this first novel by David Trueba, the home belongs to the Belitre, a family as numerous as it is absurd. The people who inhabit this book only listen to the voice of their heart, while reason keeps an impassive silence.

Diana Maroto, unha moza brasileira de vinte anos, desaparece en Oregón. A policía búscaa sen éxito ata que un equipo de mergulladores atopa o seu corpo a tres quilómetros da ponte do Bibei, desde onde fora tirada ao río tras ser apuñalada. A súa compañeira, Camelia V.P. encóntrase unha vez ao mes cun construtor no motel Trópico. A doutora Carme M. T. esfórzase por atopar as palabras axeitadas cando Rafael B.D. se presenta na súa casa cun ramo de rosas para expresarlle a súa admiración. Aurora P.G., unha doante cero positivo, sofre cada noite a violencia do seu home. Os membros...

Un asesino anda suelto arrebatando vidas con una furia despiadada y una eficacia antinatural y Remy Boudreux deberá desplegar todos sus instintos felinos si pretende proteger a una sensual y misteriosa cantante de jazz de la cual ha quedado inmediatamente cautivado. A medida que la pasión entre ellos aumenta, su agudo instinto de supervivencia será desafiado como nunca antes.