Primera Firma

La vida es sueño está fuertemente vinculada al sentido dramático del hombre del siglo XVII que descubre no ser el centro del universo y se da cuenta de que todo es efímero y fugaz. El tiempo pasa rápido, las cosas mutan constantemente y nada dura. Al mismo tiempo siente profundo apego a las riquezas de la vida y los placeres materiales. El protagonista de la obra es Segismundo que, desde su nacimiento, está condenado a un destino terrible. Encerrado por su padre en una torre, allí habitó desde joven, conociendo únicamente a una persona, su carcelero. En este momento, el rey Basilio...

"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been...

La fuga vertiginosa en busca de solidez lleva a un joven a cruzar la frontera mexicana. Manhattan envuelta en las corrientes musicales lo arrastran junto con un grupo de amigos a sumergirse en una atmósfera que parece arrastrarlos al descontrol, al caos. La novela transcurre en tiempos difusos y paralelos en tres zonas determinadas: la ciudad de Buenos Aires, la política, la dictadura, la orfandad; Monterrey (México) la extensa frontera minada de eventos trágicos, y la ciudad de Manhattan (Estados Unidos) en donde la vida fluye imprecisa, cemento y plástico, su vertiginosidad parece...

Antoinette's world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the man she knew better than she knew herself. Or at least she thought. Arriving to the old stone church for his funeral, she sees a woman she has never met before.