El tesoro de Mhorrer

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

Novela histórica, aventura y realismo mágico. Siglo XIX. La protagonista, una mujer blanca, es hecha cautiva por nativos. Rescatada por un chamán de la etnia mapuche, la instruirá como curandera por mandato de los dioses. Dotada de poderes extraordinarios, desde que es una niña, Amadora, ahora Antumalen Sayen, recorrerá con su maestro, Minchekewün, los territorios ancestrales de Patagonia, en medio de la guerra entre blancos e indígenas por la posesión de la tierra. La supervivencia de los aborígenes y sus saberes milenarios estarán en peligro. Antumalen comprobará que en ambos...

Peter Jernigan is barely over forty, lives in a suburb in New Jersey with his teenaged son Danny, and works in a New York real estate agency. Intelligent, but lacking success, Jernigan flounders through his ordinary life, from which neither his addictions nor his sarcasm can save him. His eccentricity and the recent death of his wife drag him towards a tortuous decadence. But things seem capable of changing when he meets Martha Peretsky, his son’s girlfriend’s divorced mother, and the two begin a promising relationship. This is the entertaining story of a man who, guided by his worst...

¿Qué piensa un hombre que contempla la Tierra desde el espacio, donde va a morir sin regresar? Nunca podremos saberlo, sin embargo, la historia no se detiene, e Irina Belokoneva, hija de ese cosmonauta perdido entre la Luna y la Tierra, es parte de ella. La muñeca rusa arranca con la entrada en 1968 de las fuerzas del Pacto de Varsovia en Praga. En un psiquiátrico de la ciudad, son testigos de ella el celador Milos Meisner e Irina. Ella ha ido a parar allí porque cuenta la extraña historia de su padre, un cosmonauta abandonado a su triste suerte en el limbo espacial; un relato que nadie ...