Amarrado

La historia de una joven y su lucha por sobrevivir a la locura en medio de los maltratos a los que le somete su amo, en una plantación moderna. Ella tendrá que encontrar la entereza y la fuerza para recuperar su libertad.

Liu Zhenyun nos propone en "El pequeño gran salto de Liu" un juego: atrapar al ladrón. Se trata de una frenética narración tragicómica en la que los robos y la violencia se suceden movidos por la avaricia. Liu Yuejin es un cocinero. Un día, tras perder su bolso y mientras lo buscaba, encuentra otro lleno de secretos que involucran a personalidades de la alta esfera social. Los bajos fondos de mugre y sopa clara se entremezclan con las enormes villas de urbanizaciones privadas, las inmensas y modernas construcciones y los altos funcionarios corruptos. Proliferan las desgracias de los...

A bright but naïve young woman marries an egotistical man of letters. The war separates them, and Alaine spends months in turmoil, first imprisoned by the Germans, then a victim of the Russians. Her husband is presumed dead, but she presses on in this autobiographical novel about men's violence against women. And yet there's beauty in these pages, and words of hope amid the worst suffering. Una mujer en el frente was first published in 1991, in the midst of Russia's political transition, and broke the decades-long silence about the wartime injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of...

"A student is accused of burning the library of his university in Norway, but has escaped Aysen -in the southern tip of Chile to send notes of indifference to their partner while writing the script for a video game where the player must decide whether landscapes will be devastated by the salmon industry for a number of unsolved murders or by a huge fire. And also, if a couple could escape the devastation through the literary dialogue. An exploration of potential relationships of love, support and harm for people and the wide open space that can be nature, the urban landscape and the infinity...