Persigueme/ Chase Me

Regreso a mi son sin clave is a novel about the trials and tribulations of a young Cuban emigre who lives in Miami. After leaving his country, Alejandro, attempts to put his past behind him and go on with his new life. However, he befriends a man, Jesus, who convinces him to return to Cuba to reconnect with his long-forgotten relatives and his culture. Alejandro decides to go back, in spite of his father's objections, but he has no idea what awaits him on the island. He has no idea he will be hit in the face with everything he wanted to forget and more.

'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city' São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie. When she goes to meet a contact in central São Paulo, Mario observes from the street as she walks into a building and doesn't come out. Inside, he discovers the dead body of a young man he doesn't recognise, and Ellie's phone lying on the floor. Told partly from Leme's point of view, partly from Ellie's, Gringa takes us through five...

Margaret Atwood reinterpreta la Odisea de Homero para dar voz a su protagonista femenina. Ganadora en dos ocasiones del Premio Booker -en el año 2000 con El asesino ciego y en 2019 con Los testamentos-, un hecho insólito en la historia del máximo galardón literario de las letras anglosajonas, la aclamada autora de El cuento de la criada nos sorprende con una valiente reelaboración del mito de Penélope, esposa de Odiseo y símbolo por excelencia de la fidelidad conyugal a lo largo de los siglos. En el relato homérico, tras la marcha de Odiseo a la guerra de Troya, Penélope se las...

Decirte adiós es una novela epistolar en la que Besson se destaca por su increíble descripción de la psicología femenina. Su fluida manera de narrar nos lleva con extrema sutileza por las reacciones y sensaciones de una mujer ante el amor y el desamor, la nostalgia del pasado feliz y los recuerdos de los momentos vividos. Decirte adiós es también una excelente crónica de viaje que trasciende el marco del periplo con las evocaciones literarias que cada lugar le sugieren a Louise.