CICATRICES

Until recently, Zvi was a happily married seventy-year-old engineer with no worrisome ailments beyond those of age. His road projects connected one place to another and opened tunnels of light deep in the mountains. But lately he forgets some names. A visit to the neurologist confirms it: first signs of his decline. Zvi, encouraged by his wife and the specialist, will not give up. His latest work will reveal to you one of the advantages of aging: with memory loss, it increases our ability to understand complex ideas, what is hidden under the surface of all things. From the wonderful pen of...

Una de las parejas mas populares en el crimen ficticio contemporaneo, el detective de homicidios del departamento de policia de Los Angeles, Peter Decker, y su esposa Rina Lazarus, estan de regreso; y se encuentran en el camino del peligro debido a una horrible invasion y un brutal asesinato multiple."

Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen "La Coja" Santos is a renowned local dancer who has long maintained an affair with the great Agustín, the married director of her troupe. An angry rivalry is sparked when she begins a passionate new liaison with...

El millonario y soltero Jim Bonderoff era la envidia de los hombres y la fantasía de todas las mujeres. Pero hasta que no descubrió que era padre no se dio cuenta de que algo faltaba en su vida. Aunque la mayor sorpresa no fue la llegada de la pequeñita de pelo erizado... ¡sino de la madre! Alexandra Fenton sabía que ella no estaba preparada para ocuparse de un bebé, y tampoco creía que lo estuviera Jim. La pregunta era... quién se quedaba entonces con el bebé.