The Haight

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...

Una conmovedora historia que nos recordará la importancia de la creatividad y del amor en tiempos de dolor y guerra. Una novela tan tierna como dolorosa en la línea de El niño con el pijama de rayas y La ladrona de libros.

Te presentamos a los nuevos vecinos, ¿de qué lado estás tú? Cuando Gav y Lou se mudan a la casa de al lado, Sara pasa días armándose de valor para ir a saludarles. Los vecinos son glamurosos, caóticos y un poquito excéntricos y, en comparación con ellos, el resto de su calle le parece de lo más aburrida. Ellos se muestran dispuestos a entablar una amistad, y eso entusiasma y halaga a Sara; por increíble que parezca, parece ser que Gav y Lou ven a su vez algo digno de admiración en Neil y en ella. Las dos parejas se vuelven inseparables en un santiamén... comparten cenas, botellas ...

Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity -- Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM Dolores reads the way a first novel should: short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition -- Nell Zink, author of THE WALLCREEPER and MISLAID Rich, melodic and marked by a troubling sensuality, Dolores depicts the strange pleasures a young girl might take in her body, and the perils and liberations such pleasures hold -- Sue Rainsford, author of FOLLOW ME TO GROUND On...