Border Crossings

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

Una de las grandes novelas españolas de los últimos años. Su autor lo publicó en 1996, creando con ella Celama, un territorio imaginario, pero reconocible y cuya familiaridad se impone por la fuerza del mundo narrativo.

El lector español tiene ahora a su alcance una de las mejores obras de la narrativa árabe contemporánea: Los tigres al décimo día (1979). Se trata de la última colección de relatos a veces, microcuentos- publicada por el escritor sirio Zakariyya Tamir antes de su exilio.

Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American literary canon through the texts of Jorge Herralde. After showing how the work of the 1998 Premio Herralde winner has been commodified, Lèal offers a critical reading of the writer figure, as represented in three key moments of Bolaño’s short story production.