La última tentación de Autumn Laing

Londres, Inglaterra, año 1888. Cabalistas, magos y ocultistas de toda especie, diseminados en todas las capas sociales, muestran una actividad frenética. Los números MDCCCLXXXVIII suman por primera vez 13 caracteres y es un año de oportunidad para los servidores del Vínculo en la milenaria guerra secreta entre los adeptos de la vieja religión y la curia vaticana. Desde los fastuosos salones del palacio de Buckingham, la anciana emperatriz Victoria y su joven amante hindú –el Munshi– entretejen los hilos de un plan secreto que devolverá la magia a su justo lugar: a la luz pública. ...

From one of the most original narrative writers of the 20th century comes an anthology of stories full of sharp humor, fierce social criticism, and strange, diverse characters. A crazy psychiatrist-turned-counselor to the families of murder victims concocts a cruel plot to make money off of the instincts of his paranoid patients; a family discovers the consequences of telling a magical invention their deepest secrets; and a man becomes trapped in a Kafkaesque world after he gets on the bad side of the boss who dominates the underworld of a small New York town. Published posthumously in 2009,...

Can a grandmother's love ward off a curse that's haunted her family for four generations? When three-year-old Sonny witnessed his father's brutal murder, he didn't know a curse haunting the men in his family was to blame. But his grandmother, Constance Jackson, did. For 20 years, Constance clung to her abusive marriage and church hoping that she could save her son. But hope and prayers were not enough, and her son died an unnatural death just like four generations of Jackson men before him. Now, she's stuck raising her grandson-Sonny. As time goes on, Constance sees Sonny as a chance to make...

Si ya no descendemos del mono, como afirmó Charles Darwin, ¿de dónde venimos? ¿Por qué desapareció el Homo de Neanderthal sin solución de continuidad allá por el 28.000 a.C.?... En 1923, tras dos años de convivencia con las tribus fueguinas, el joven antropólogo polaco, Krzysztof Wazyck, se despide de sus amigos nómadas del mar, llevándose consigo a Europa, además de su afecto y amistad, un supuesto gran hallazgo capaz de comprometer seriamente los cimientos de la ciencia moderna e incluso creencias y dogmas milenarios; y una gran experiencia introspectiva "El Kina", paralelismo...