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La nueva novela histórica del autor del best seller El manuscrito de piedra. «La mejor novela de Cervantes fue su vida.» En una librería de Toledo, un profesor de literatura encuentra, por casualidad, unos papeles antiguos escritos en caracteres arábigos. Se trata de la «confesión» de Antonio de Segura, enemigo en la sombra de Miguel de Cervantes, a quien envidia con toda su alma y persigue de manera implacable con la intención de destruirlo. En ella Segura nos relata, desde la cárcel, cómo conoció a Cervantes en su juventud y cómo fue herido por él en el curso de una pelea,...

“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They...

Jovel, serenata a la gente menuda is an essential novel in the literary canon of Chiapas, Mexico; not only for belonging to the historic novel genre, but also by bringing out important identity traits for the Chiapas population. The strategies for the composition of this fictional world follow very closely historical documents to relate the circumstances at the departure from the Iberian Peninsula in the XVI century of the Spanish group that colonized, founded and established itself in Ciudad Real de Chiapas (current San Cristobal de las Casas), as well as diverse circumstances of the...

author bio: please use author bio from author info page. book description: Kanata, Bitter Shield, Thunder Gate, Wildfires and Victoria tell the story of Canada's settlement from sea to sea through the lives of two Scots families who leave Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. Janet Cameron MacLean, believing the man she loves to be dead, wants a new start in a new country. Mathew Macleod searches for Janet and, being unable to find her, assumes she too is lost. A few years later they are reunited in Quebec, and the saga of the MacLeans and the Macleods begins. Each volume is a story in...