Danza de máscaras

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....

Es handelt sich um eine wahre Kriminalgeschichte. Der Autor ist selbst Opfer dieses Delikts. Er hat Strafanzeige erstattet. Die Ermittlungen laufen noch. Bei einer Zweitauflage dieses Krimis können möglicherweise Ergebnisse der Fahndung mitgeteilt werden. Alle Reisenden, des RSD-Reiseservice, die auf so einer Reise auch Einkäufe von Teppichen, Schmuck und Lederwaren gemacht haben, sollten diese Kriminalgeschichte unbedingt lesen.

Emilio Carballido (1925–2008) was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he had already produced an impressive body of works in two very different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the "well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre—and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate Zone" to the ...

Chan Ho-Kei es considerado el mejor autor de novela negra en idioma chino de la actualidad. "Parece más una novela de detectives que una novela negra, hasta que conocemos a N, el enigmático hacker que Nga-Yee contrata. Su investigación rastrea las huellas de los temibles depredadores de trenes subterráneos, hasta los oscuros confines de Internet, donde el mal se propaga sin control". —The New York Times. Una colegiala - Siu-Man - se ha suicidado, saltando de la ventana del piso 22 a la acera. Era huérfana y su hermana mayor, Nga-Yee se niega a creer que no hubo un juego sucio que la...