Alex en el País de las Maravillas

Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

INTRODUCCIÓN 1. Sobre Lourdes Ortiz 2. Obra narrativa 3. Los motivos de Circe. Yudita Bibliografía LOS MOTIVOS DE CIRCE Eva Los motivos de Circe Penélope Betsabé Salomé Gioconda YUDITA Índice de láminas

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

El caso Galenus es un thriller ambientado en el mundo de las multinacionales españolas y las organizaciones internacionales. Madrid, Barcelona, Londres, Lyon, Bogotá o Pekín son escenarios de una acción que se traslada desde lujosos despachos y hoteles de cinco estrellas a paisajes desolados, sórdidos callejuelas y pensiones castizas. Isabel Sáenz de Tejada, una hermosa ejecutiva con un pasado, y Fernando Flórez, un toxicólogo sin nada más que el presente, intentarán desentrañar un asesinato y un misterio que ha permanecido oculto durante casi dos décadas en un sótano: una...