Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

The marquis of Villafria, having squandered his fortune on a dissolute life in Madrid, has had to retire to rural Andalusia, to the town of Villafria, with his young daughter Dona Luz. There he comes under the sway of Don Acisclo, his one-time steward, who, by dint of shrewdness and hard and diligent work, has ended up with the marquis's property, estates, and influence. After the marquis's death, Don Acisclo, his own family grown and living elsewhere, insists that Dona Luz come to live with him. At first she resists, but ultimately yields, because, impoverished as she is and with the cloud...

X Premio Alfaguara de Novela Ni el tiempo ni el desierto pueden frenar al amor. El hallazgo inesperado de una vieja fotografía hará que Montse Cambra, una doctora de cuarenta y cuatro años, abandone su Barcelona natal para buscar a su primer amor. Comienza así un viaje que la llevará hasta el Sáhara. El afán de supervivencia y la pasión de vivir de un pueblo olvidado en el desierto la ayudarán a descubrir su verdadero destino. Mira si yo te querré es una historia de amor que se alarga en el tiempo, el retrato de dos épocas y de dos culturas unidas por un secreto, la aventura de una ...

Se producen una serie de asesinatos justo cuando el filósofo Pitagoras debe elegir su sucesor. La enigmatica Ariadna, el investigador egipcio Akenon, el propio Pitagoras y el asesino, entablaran una carrera por dar con el asesino y, a su vez, ahuyentar sus propios miedos

Alebrijes came out of the most horrendous nightmares of the human being, and on a dark night they jumped into the workshop of the artisans and from there they soon went out into the streets and dispersed in the cities, in the towns and even in the hills and jungles, Where they hide and lurk with their claws and fangs ready to jump over their prey. No one should feel safe from them, for it is possible to find them suddenly in the most unexpected places, even in the pages of the books where they have made their nest. Proof of this are the fantastic stories that are told here about those...