Cuentos dominicanos

After graduating from junior high school, I went to a technical school in the county city, so I stayed with my cousin, who was a female anchorwoman. Usually, she didn't like me, so I wanted to take revenge on her.

Una ola de suicidios asola el mundo con una particularidad: aquellas personas que deciden quitarse la vida son las que detentan el poder económico. Héctor, un empleado de seguros, introvertido, de vida solitaria, es testigo privilegiado de este acontecimiento planetario que le retrotraerá a un pasado que creía olvidado. Su vida, pensada para no vivirla, sufrirá un vertiginoso cambio solo asumible gracias al amor que siente por Blanca.

Excerpt from Dona Perfecta: Novela Espanola Contemporanea The two literary genre: in which Spaniards have most excelled are the drama and the novel. Indeed, outside of these two forms, it may be said that no Spaniard has won a literary success of the first order. Thus, in the past six cen turies there have been many Spanish poets of real worth; and yet in the list of the world's supreme poets no Spanish name appears. Among the world's great philosophers Spain has no representative, though she has had thinkers of genuine power. She has had no moralist, or historian, or political writer, or...

¿Puede algo sucedido hace más de treinta años cambiar radicalmente la vida de un grupo de amigas? ¿En qué han quedado los sueños y esperanzas de unas chicas que en 1974 tenían diecisiete años?