Lucía o la fragilidad de las fuertes

Quién mató a Nola Kellergan es la gran incógnita a desvelar en este thriller incomparable cuya experiencia de lectura escapa a cualquier tentativa de descripción. Intentémoslo: una gran novela policiaca y romántica a tres tiempos -1975, 1998 y 2008- acerca del asesinato de una joven de quince años en la pequeña ciudad de Aurora, en New Hampshire. En 2008, Marcus Goldman, un joven escritor, visita a su mentor -Harry Quebert, autor de una aclamada novela-, y descubre que éste tuvo una relación secreta con Nola Kellergan. Poco después, Harry es arrestado, acusado de asesinato, al...

"When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive...

Terminando la década de los años veinte del siglo pasado, la historia transcurre en Buenos Aires. Porfirio regentea dos prostíbulos; un día decide hacer un cambio en su vida. Un cambio copernicano. ¿Lo logrará? En el telón de fondo del drama de Porfirio está, avasallante, el primer peronismo. Las sombras cardinales de Porfirio es uno de esos textos que producen un intenso placer estético. Al río narrativo de Hugo Barcia confluyen estimables afluentes, pero su obra es tan propia y original como la imaginería fabulosa de su autor. Esta obra respira algo del realismo mágico de...

La Momia (The Mummy) is a horror novel set in modern-day Mexico where the citizens are once again caught in the middle of a raging drug war between the Mexican Mafia, Los Federales, the American DEA and Homeland Security. Ricky Valdez is facing the death sentence in northern Coahuila, recently reinstated as a backlash against the epidemic of drug violence. He has been framed by the Government for a string of executions by the Aztec 666, the most vicious of the drug gangs in El Norte. Numerous witnesses claim that an Aztec mummy had been resurrected to carry out the murders. Lieutenant Leo...