Historias curiosas de un mundo en cortocircuito

"Niño y grande" es novela de amor en la que, de acuerdo con la lógica de Miró, están fatalmente presentes la enfermedad y la muerte. Es una narración lenta y altamente emocional de la resistencia al dolor de la heroína y la debilidad de carácter del personaje masculino. En la hondura del paisaje rural levantino, poblado de una vida poco ortodoxa, impregnada de una religiosidad "sui generis," se enfrentan las ganas de vivir con el sufrimiento haciendo el camino que lleva a la frustración.

"A man meets the mother of a school friend who was his adolescence erotic obsession; two brothers who have not spoken for years return to contact for a kidney; a Catalan lives peculiar adventures in Las Vegas; A man seeks the trace of his beloved in the streets of Barcelona... and, in the last of the stories in this book, the author himself becomes a character. "

Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the...

¿Descubrirá el inspector de la policía de Londres Thomas Lynley qué hay detrás del brutal asesinato de su esposa? Ness, Joel y Toby afrontan un nuevo cambio en sus vidas. Su excéntrica abuela, dispuesta a eludir sus responsabilidades, decide...