Cervantes, El Quijote y el lenguaje vulgar

Miguel is a naughty and curious boy. He found a thread in his garden, he pull of the thread, but he does not that this thread belong of the moon… but suddenly the moon started to dissolves.

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.

«Este libro es la prolongación literal de otro que publiqué en 1997, Mano de sombra. Si aquel volumen recogía ciento cuatro artículos, correspondientes a dos años de tarea, el presente reúne veinticuatro meses más de opiniones sin cuento... Me despedí entonces diciendo que al releer todas las piezas seguidas había tenido la impresión de haber opinado demasiado. Así que imagínense ahora, tras otras ciento cuatro. No sé cómo nadie consiente, tras tanto tiempo, que le siga reventando los domingos.» Así dice Javier Marías en el preámbulo a Seré amado cuando falte. Pero quizá...

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...