Visitation Street

¿Nunca te has preguntado que hace un zapato tirado en la acera? ¿Por qué su dueño, descalzo de un solo pie, no lo ha recogido? ¿Es, o no, uno de los misterios sin resolver más asiduos de nuestra rutina diaria? En Ni un zapato más estos intrigantes calzados solitarios aparecerán en la puerta de Rubén, un joven inspector de policía que acaba de comenzar en un nuevo destino. Cada zapato traerá un alarmante vínculo: la desaparición una mujer. Rubén, olvidando que no está en su mejor momento vital, empeñará todas sus horas para encontrar a esas posibles víctimas descalzas. Uno de ...

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Matei Visniec se dio a conocer al gran público con su teatro escrito en francés unos años después de su exilio voluntario en 1987. No obstante, desde muy pronto, durante los años de la dictadura de Ceauşescu, había escrito en rumano otras obras que, en su inmensa mayoría, no se representaron entonces en Rumanía, lo que no es de extrañar por los dardos críticos que lanzaba al régimen, a menudo falsamente disimulados en lo irónico o lo sugerido. Las tres obras que reúne este volumen pertenecen a ese periodo y comparten, además, dos rasgos: son relativamente cortas y el animal...

Sometimes life gives you exactly what you do not want, precisely when you need it most. That's how it was for Gideon. Not that he was guilty, at least not of rustling, but the town was pretty well set on hanging him anyway. Don't get me wrong, Caswell Crossing is full of good folks. Some would even call themselves upstanding citizens. Have you ever tried to change the minds of 'good folks' when they are half convinced the swift application of a rope will solve all their problems? But the prospect of being hung counted as nothing more than a bothersome inconvenience to Gideon. Maybe he was...