Dos pájaros de un tiro

Una habitación de hotel. Una mujer protagonista. Y una historia. Esas son las premisas principales que tenían las escritoras y escritores de los 24 relatos que componen este libro. Después venían algunos detalles: el hotel debía ser céntrico y estar cerca de una estación de tren; tener pocas habitaciones, pero en todas ellas un teléfono, una televisión y una ventana, y un cuarto de baño. En la recepción, un sofá negro con cojines blancos y un jarrón con flores de color violeta. Con motivo de la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, qué mejor que una antología de...

Arthur Beautyman, un hacker informático convertido en detective, está a la caza de un asesino en serie cuyas víctimas son santos modernos. Cada dos meses aparece un nuevo cuerpo, y el mundo pierde a una buena persona. En su contra tiene un reality show televisivo sin escrúpulos, cuya máxima premisa es que la policía es corrupta e incompetente. La reacción pública va dejando a Beautyman sin recursos, por lo que acaba retomando su faceta de hacker informático para encontrar pruebas que por la vía legal no podría. Pero, accidentalmente, deja un rastro en Internet y es investigado por...

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The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...

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...