La cautiva

Esta edición es rica en historias: David Izazaga presenta en Distincta un reportaje sobre los espacios y comunidades de colaboración (conocidos como hubs), que están convirtiéndose en un esquema de trabajo profesional (co-working) para muchos gremios. Ofrecen la posibilidad de asociarse y colaborar con otros profesionales, así como la flexibilidad y la ligereza necesarias para la innovación. En Indivisa, Vanesa Robles documenta las condiciones laborales con las que trabajan muchas de las empresas líderes de la revolución tecnológica de nuestro tiempo. Desgraciadamente, privan las...

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The feisty Mrs. Powell has died and left Delbert with a pair of big shoes to fill. Mr. Powell, anxious to become rich on the property he inherited from his dead wife, cannot wait to leave the horrid and backward village of Cerro - and so takes no notice of the prosaic Delbert, the only employee of the Cerro Hardware Store. In his mourning for Mrs. Powell's friendship, Delbert comes to his own realizations concerning the forces that threaten to ruin Cerro, and decides to wage a secret war against what will eventually destroy all he knows and loves. Delbert's initial act of vandalism wreaks...

Si hay un recuerdo que Héctor Costa no olvidará jamás, es la mañana en que encontró por azar la radiografía olvidada de dos fetos a punto de nacer. La imagen le reveló la existencia de un hermano gemelo del que nada había oído hasta entonces y al que todo el mundo daba por muerto. Bajo la sombra de su hermano desaparecido, y espoleado por las hazañas de los primeros héroes de la Aviación, Héctor perseguirá, a través del convulso devenir del siglo XX, el sueño infantil de volar.

“Ben Saenz’s vivid imagination captures all that is beautiful, agonizing and redemptive in the crossings we make through borders of geography and culture. But it is in the interior journeys of the psyche and the soul that we must find salvation; Saenz’s brilliant prose penetrates to that core and he finds and exposes that truth. A reader can ask for no more than this: to be spellbound by a story, and to come to the last page with a sense of having been being changed and allowed to carry something of it away.” —Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country From award-winning poet...