El Gorjeo de Las Palomas

Era nuestra tierra es una novela envolvente, torrencial, perturbadora, que nos cuenta el auge y el declive de una estirpe de colonos franceses afincados en Argelia. La familia Saint-André tiene seiscientas cincuenta y tres hectáreas de trigo, naranjales y olivares en Cassagne, en la zona beréber de Dahra, una magnífica hacienda de buenas tierras cristianas con acacias y palmeras abrasándose al sol en suelo argelino. Ernest y Hortense viven durante años en el paraíso terrenal con sus tres hijos, Antoine, Claudia y Marie-Claire, pero la guerra arrasará con su hacienda y les obligará a...

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero’s nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction In Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories. Soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather’s...

Para Charmian Clift, Grecia era la Tierra Prometida. En 1954, ella y su marido, el famoso reportero George Johnston, abandonaron el gris Londres de posguerra y partieron hacia el mar Egeo con dos máquinas de escribir y dos hijos pequeños. Planeaban pasar allí un año, pero acabarían quedándose una década. Cantos de sirena es la crónica de su accidentada aclimatación a Kálimnos, una pequeña isla poblada por taciturnos pescadores de esponjas y mujeres fuertes y supersticiosas. En sus páginas, llenas de personajes inolvidables —con su fiel escudero local, Manolis, y su inflexible...