Días bisiestos

Julieta Viterbo ha desaparecido. Es una de las sesenta personas que desaparecen diariamente en Chile. Abrumada por crímenes manifiestos, la policía no tiene tiempo para investigar lo que puede terminar siendo nada más que una escapada aventurera de una vida tediosa. Sin embargo, presiones de amistad y políticas obligan al comisario Oscar Morante a hacerse cargo de investigar este caso. Su recargada agenda lo obliga a instalar en la investigación a la psicóloga Adriana Vallejos, una consultora de la policía. Enmarcada entre un pasado de pobreza y un futuro de éxito al alcance de la...

Al igual que el gran James Baldwin, el aclamado escritor de India Vasudhendra ha transformado su experiencia personal de la intolerancia, la vergüenza y la tragedia, en una angustiosa pero magnífica verdad. A partir de que el propio autor salió del armario, estas historias de amor homosexual despojaron a los lectores en su país de sus nociones y prejuicios.

'A genuine page-turner and ideal holiday read. It leaves you unsettled and enthralled in equal measure' DAILY EXPRESS _____ Everyone has an idea of what their perfect life is. For Agatha, it's Meghan Shaughnessy's. These two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common - a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to hide the truth, but their worlds are about to collide in a shocking act that cannot be undone. The compelling standalone psychological thriller that will break your heart into tiny pieces, from world-renowned...

After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, Nuni (1956). As in his first novel, The Devil Rides Outside, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In Nuni, that reality is a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. Yet, the professor's intellectual accomplishments are useless here, his place in both family and civilized society meaningless. He learns to cope, not so much in terms of survival as in finding a new...