La palma y el laurel

A couple embarks on a journey of self-discovery when they decide to take a year off from their troubled marriage to see if they can fall in love again. By the author of Forever, Interrupted. Original.

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko ...

Sus sentimientos eran tan intensos que no se podía resistir. El millomario Raoul Benoit permitió que Alexis Fabrini, la mejor amiga de su difunta mujer, se convirtiera en la niñera de su hija solo por una razón: la bebé merecía amor y atención. Él no lo merecía… porque tenía que pagar por sus pecados, lo que significaba mantenerse lejos de Alexis, por mucho que la deseara. Lo menos que Alexis podía hacer era ayudar con la niña. Pero no podía meterse en la cama de Raoul. Había vivido con un amor no correspondido durante demasiado tiempo… ¿qué importaba un poco más?

A Puerto Rican novelist and poet presents a series of multi-faceted short stories with characters much in the vein of Edgar Allen Poe's William Wilson and Paul Auster's Daniel Quinn, in settings that explore the dark and at times violent side of post-industrial society.