El secreto oculto de los Andes IV: Los inseparables

En este relato sobre muertes, sobre la muerte, Ignacio Solares narra apasionadamente el amor a la vida. "No puedo evitar en todo momento mirar hacia arriba. Como si mi alma hubiese mordido el anzuelo invisible de un invisible pescador que la tironea desde las alturas." Bajo este signo omnipotente, Lucas Caraveo descubre que no ha viajado a San Sóstenes, un caserío perdido en la Sierra Tarahumara, para investigar y rendir un reporte sobre su colega, el padre Ketelsen, sino para confrontar dudas y certezas sobre su vida, su memoria, su muerte, su fe. De la misma manera en que los personajes...

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down to write the invitations to her eightieth birthday party she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have built; but she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...

Sergio has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marcos hates it and can't believe that a friend of his likes such work. Ivan tries, without success, to pacify the two parties. The question here is: are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are?