Sintaya, el joven mandinga

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the...

This is a story of a young beautiful Jewish woman, trained as a gemologist, who experiences the excitement and intrigue of the world of diamonds and murder in the African Desert. She is accused of murdering the family who owns the Alonso Diamond Mining Company and whose home she had just left ten days earlier. On her return to New York City by way of ocean liner and in the course of being arrested for murder she meets a young reporter by the name of Stephen Hauk. It is a story of deep love and emotion with determination to succeed under all circumstances that will leave you in awe of Emmy...

Julieta Moreno was his best friends younger sister. Marco Cruz was the rebellious boy who used to draw what bothered him. The past: One in which he felt guilty for feeling so many things that he shouldnt, and hers, dreaming that one night on the lawn of the Planetarium was enough to change the world.

La historia de Travin se cuenta en dos tiempos: el de su adultez, cuando es un periodista de gran prestigio perseguido por la dictadura, un tiempo breve y brutal; y el de su adolescencia -el corazón de esta novela, que se lee también como una novela de iniciación- narrado por el mismo Travin en un manuscrito que jamás llegará a publicar. Es 1942, Travin llega a Córdoba con su madre y su hermana por quince días. La segunda gran guerra ya es un hecho. Travin es un adolescente judío, culto, interesado por la política, filosoviético, arrogante y fabulador. En la pensión donde pasan sus ...