Francisco mi vida

Samuel Riba se considera el último editor literario y se siente hundido desde que se retiró. Un día, tiene un sueño premonitorio que le indica claramente que el sentido de su vida pasa por Dublín. Convence entonces a unos amigos para acudir al Bloomsday y recorrer juntos el corazón mismo del Ulises de James Joyce. Riba oculta a sus compañeros dos cuestiones que le obsesionan: saber si existe el escritor genial que no supo descubrir cuando era editor y celebrar un extraño funeral por la era de la imprenta, agonizante ya por la inminencia de un mundo seducido por la locura de la era...

Un hombre se obsesiona con la idea de hacer sufrir una cruel venganza a aquellos que considera que fueron sus ilegítimos carceleros. Para llevar a cabo su terrible venganza, elabora un juego en el que todos los implicados, incluido él mismo, han de estar sujetos a unas estrictas reglas. Serán estas reglas las que determinarán quienes tendrán opciones de salvarse.

Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen "La Coja" Santos is a renowned local dancer who has long maintained an affair with the great Agustín, the married director of her troupe. An angry rivalry is sparked when she begins a passionate new liaison with...

"Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did and did not happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is memory but one's own story about the past. Eschewing self-righteousness in favor of self-criticism, Kaniuk's book, winner of the 2010 Sapir Prize for Literature, is the tale of a younger man told by his older, wiser self the self who realizes that wars are pointless, and that he and his...