La chica del cumpleaños

Finding the Key By: Deborah Kelly After the sudden and unexpected passing of her beloved mother Dorothy, Pam is grief-stricken and struggling to accept her death. Grasping for any means of keeping her near, Pam finds comfort during her mother’s celebration of life, where she is overcome by stories from her mom’s youth—stories she never knew; and she begins to yearn to have known her mother in her youth, too. Soon, Pam starts having vivid dreams and visions of her mother; dreams too specific and unusual not to be true. Desperate to discover the reality of her new existence, Pam reaches...

El miedo, la soledad, el dolor, la desesperación, el deseo y la fascinación ante lo desconocido, todas estas emociones tan humanas y tan primitivas, que resaltan la fragilidad de nuestra condición y que son plasmadas con una pluma inteligente y fluida por Zapata en ''Historias cortas para antes de dormir'', la primera colección de este autor que promete causar más de un escalofrío con la noche, y toda clase de monstruos y espectros como cómplices.

ÍNDICE Presenación. Dickens por Galdós. Aventuras de Pickwick. Galdós y Dickens. Galdós y La Nación. La traducción Biliografía. AVENTURAS DE PICKWICK Carlos Dickens Primera Parte. Segnda Parte.

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...