La roca del poder I

A bright but naïve young woman marries an egotistical man of letters. The war separates them, and Alaine spends months in turmoil, first imprisoned by the Germans, then a victim of the Russians. Her husband is presumed dead, but she presses on in this autobiographical novel about men's violence against women. And yet there's beauty in these pages, and words of hope amid the worst suffering. Una mujer en el frente was first published in 1991, in the midst of Russia's political transition, and broke the decades-long silence about the wartime injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of...

Francesca 'Frankie' Caputo has it all figured out. She's finally going to marry the man she loves and then they will live happily ever after. But when a freak accident cuts her fiancé Alex's life tragically short, all of Frankie's future plans suddenly disintegrate. Drowning in grief, Frankie flees from her overbearing Italian-American family, and escapes to an abandoned cabin owned by Alex's parents in a remote part of Washington forest. As her heart slowly begins to heal, Frankie discovers a freedom that's both exhilarating and unsettling to everything she has always known for sure. So...

UN GIRASOL EN INVIERNO es una tragicomedia que cuenta, a veces en clave de humor y a veces en clave dramática, los obstáculos con los que tropiezan doña Elvira y don Ángel, dos internos de una residencia psiquiátrica, para rehacer su vida amorosa debido a la oposición de sus respectivos hijos.

Bienvenidos a la serie de libros Novelistas Imprescindibles, donde les presentamos las mejores obras de autores notables. Para este libro, el crítico literario August Nemo ha elegido las dos novelas más importantes y significativas de Eduardo Acevedo Díaz que son Brenda and Grito de gloria. Eduardo Acevedo Díaz fue un escritor, periodista y político uruguayo perteneciente al Partido Nacional. Es considerado como el iniciador de la novela nacional de su país, tomó parte activa en la política y sufrió varios destierros. Novelas seleccionadas para este libro: - Brenda. - Grito de...