La ciudad plácida

Siete años después de Nos vemos allá arriba, que obtuvo el Premio Goncourt en 2013 y ha vendido más de dos millones de ejemplares, Pierre Lemaitre cierra su soberbia trilogía consagrada al período de entreguerras con El espejo de nuestras penas, una novela épica sobre las grandezas y las miserias de una sociedad aplastada por los vaivenes de una Historia cuyos ecos resuenan todavía hoy. Primavera de 1940. Louise Belmont, de treinta años, corre desnuda y recubierta de sangre por el bulevar de Montparnasse. Para entender la macabra situación que acaba de vivir, esta joven maestra...

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...

Este es el reflejo de la decadencia de la monarquía de los Austrias durante el reinado de Carlos II a través de las peripecias de la familia de un rico comerciante venido a menos, que acaba cautiva del rey musulmán Muley Ismail. Para rescatarles a ellos y

Following an accident, Paul Sheldon, an author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed and deranged fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his fictional heroine back to life. (Horror)