Entre la Cruz y la Media Luna

Monterroso converts any memory into a theme for a story. In La vaca, the author filters daily experience until he obtains its essence. Through his talent for transforming life into a fable, he bestows on every creation the breath of simplicity with merciless and condescending humor. Once again and with sharp precision, Augusto Monterroso throws the darts of his wisdom in these twenty essays.

El tratado sobre la formación moral del príncipe, escrito por el dominico Vicente de Beauvais, en torno a 1260, constituye una de las manifestaciones de literatura moral principesca más importantes de la Edad Media. Consta de veintiocho capítulos, que abordan tres grandes cuestiones: la naturaleza del gobierno y sus condiciones, la formación del gobernante ideal y la de aquellos que participan en la administración pública. Una temática que proyecta con fidelidad una imagen de la cultura pedagógica medieval descansando en el papel rector de las monarquías vicarias de Cristo. Idea que ...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Su amor fue tan intenso como su forma de vida. Niema y Dallas eran agentes especiales y hacían trabajos para diversas entidades, principalmente la CIA. Llevaban unos meses casados cuando aceptaron una peligrosa misión en Irán. Algo salió mal y, para salv