Hanami

Published by the author’s daughter after his death, this brief novel narrates a sexual encounter as experienced by the author himself. A night rife with sensuality is described with ample lyricism and mysticism, relating the encounter between two hedonistic characters, the initiating teacher Gide and the innocent but not-too-modest young Ferdinand. Openly autobiographical, this lustful tale explores desire as the engine that drives the one-way journey into the depths of the self. Publicada por la hija del autor luego de su muerte, esta breve novela narra un episodio sexual según...

Él quiso tocar el cielo con los dedos. Ella no pudo empezar a volar. Marcos Ro es un hombre con un objetivo en la vida: llegar a ser líder de audiencia con su programa de sucesos. Para conseguirlo hará todo lo que sea necesario: manipular a los directivos de la cadena de televisión, engañar a la audiencia e, incluso, trepar a costa de su mujer, presentadora de la competencia. Pero cuando llega el caso que tiene en vilo a todo el país, la desaparición de la joven Olivia Carrasco, Marcos tiene que elegir entre su imparable ascenso mediático o dar a conocer una pista clave para encontrar ...

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Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...