El bello amor humano

«Lombardi se enfrenta a un nuevo y más peligroso caso donde tanto las autoridades como los silencios se lo pondrán cada vez más difícil en un escenario que no conoce». Verano de 1942. Carlos Lombardi se ve obligado por la policía del Nuevo Estado a seguir el rastro de un joven desaparecido. Todavía en libertad provisional, con un inestable trabajo en la agencia de investigación Hermes, el exinspector republicano se enfrenta a un mundo rural para él desconocido en la Castilla profunda; un mundo de silencio y miedo marcado por la cruel represión durante los primeros meses de la...

En la primera entrega de la trilogía «Caballo de fuego», París se convierte en el escenario de una historia de amor entre un señor de la guerra y una cirujana pediátrica que lucha por la paz.

A porn actor and actress escape their past lives in a black Chrysler Imperial along with the woman’s young daughter, driving beneath an inclement sun on a series of identical roads and past inhospitable landscapes. Each one of them narrates their flight to nowhere, but it is a fourth voice—that of a documentary filmmaker fascinated by this story—that communicates just how much of those three characters can exist within each person. In this magnetic novel the past is a nebulous territory from which there is no escape, and although the journey can turn the most impersonal...

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up making charcoal sketches on freshly whitewashed temple walls and went on to be titled in the court of Thiruvananthapuram as 'Raja' for his artistic prowess. His painting of a Nair woman who worked in his wife's palace brought him wrath and recognition...