Sombra de otra sombra

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

«La literatura mexicana de los últimos veinte años se ha caracterizado por la superposición de múltiples tendencias y propuestas innovadoras. Una de las características destacadas en esa producción es, sin duda, la proliferación de textos escritos por mujeres. Para comprender esa contribución, Eva Gundermann explora, con perspicacia y muy fundados conocimientos de la narratología contemporánea, uno de los textos difíciles de la narrativa mexicana: Mejor desaparece de Carmen Boullosa. Con una interpretación que se ancla en aspectos culturales, Eva Gundermann profundiza en las...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.