Un día cualquiera en Nueva York

Oscar takes the city subway often and for months he has seen a girl who is always drawing on a yellow notebook. He is intrigued by the notebook, her eyes, how she holds the pencil and what he feels every time they pass each other without saying anything... Valentina has drawn a multitude of strangers, but there is one that is special to her, a boy she calls the boy with glasses. They both don't know each other and have no possibility of meeting... and yet they both feel that they are joined by an invisible thread.

Las novelas de iniciación que nos marcan suelen ser aquellas que muestran la infancia, no como un lugar idealizado, sino como el espacio de matices oscuros que puede llegar a ser. De acuerdo con el prólogo de Lola Ancira, Todo ángel es terrible "rompió el silencio sobre cuestiones satanizadas por la sociedad mexicana ligadas con la frustración y la sexualidad. El resultado es una obra deleitosa, de gran calidad literaria y profundamente reflexiva".

After inheriting a huge apartment in Barcelona, Clara Montsalvatges converts it into a place to care for friends who have a hard time. On the opposite floor a couple of mysterious neighbors move in. Clara ends up in the opposite floor and becomes her neighbor's confidant, where contempt and distrust competes.

La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña. It tells about a woman married to an older man of high power and property but feeling unhappy in this marriage. To escape from the grey routine of emotionless married life, the main character accepts courtesy from another man, not being aware that he's not her only admirer.