They Say

«Sólo que aquí no hay remedos, ni parodias, ni figuras literarias, Ana. Me estoy muriendo de verdad. Y es un consuelo saber que lo último que hice, tal como si nos hubiéramos encontrado en el 1200, fue quererte. Fue esperar con susto y con un deseo terrible hasta poder tenerte».

"Fuenmayor es un escritor de quilates, un precursor de la novela latinoamericana, uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción colombiana y el gran renovador del cuento nacional". Pedro Badrán Dotado de gran ingenio, de un alma siempre joven y de una sensibilidad visionaria, José Félix Fuenmayor se convirtió en referente para algunos de los escritores más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en Colombia, como Gabriel García Márquez y Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, pero hoy es poco recordado. Random House recupera, en busca de concederle su merecido lugar en el panteón de la literatura...

The old woman Lucha is about to be killed by her husband before the astonished gaze of her granddaughter. The origin of the rancor accumulated for decades dates back to the early morning of January 2, 1921. The young Lucha experienced the shipwreck of the steamship Santa Isabel at the mouth of the Arousa estuary, off the island of Sálvora. While the men celebrated the arrival of the new year, the women faced alone the rescue of the castaways by throwing themselves into the sea with their dornas. They were considered heroines, but there were also rumors about not-so-epic behaviors, in which...

The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from Americas capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as states evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose. Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywoods latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession with a Hollywood...