Aventuras en Jordania

Moreno-Ruiz nos trae una novela en la que los bajos fondos se funden con el mundo de la alta cultura, todo en salsa de sarcasmo. La cosa empieza con el asesinato de Merixtell, tal vez la persona más cercana al narrador, que es un reportero trotamundos con muchas cosas para contar. Pretoria, Adelaida, Königsberg, Praga... Las ciudades y su gente empiezan a desfilar por su memoria. Atletas, filósofos, hombres y mujeres de lo más diversos se van a encontrar en estas páginas. José Luis Moreno-Ruiz (Santander, 1953 - Madrid, 2021) fue un escritor y periodista español. Sus novelas incluyen...

El final del que partimos is an exciting story of a future as realistic as it is terrifying. During a mysterious environmental crisis, a young woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Terrified of a world that is reeling, where everything around them has become dangerous and unstable, the family is forced to leave their home in search of safety. In a journey that is vividly reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's dystopian world of The Road, the journey will show both the fear and amazement of seeing Z's little fists clinging to life, in a struggle for survival in which people bring out the worst,...

Judy Hammer, head of the Richmond police, and Andy Brazil, her righthand man, must go after a gang of delinquents and at the same time, make peace between authorities and the people. Brazil is also an ex-journalist who writes, with a pseudonym, critical articles against the government. His criticism reflects the increasing displeasure that the population feels towards its authorities. This calm place, inhabited mainly by fishermen, has initiated a revolt against the new norms that the governor wants to impose. Judy and Andy will have to mediate between politicians and islanders to avoid...

'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer