Dueños del mañana y otras historias

Relato corto de Aleksandr Pushkin que presenta a un hombre triste en el oficio de fabrinte de ataúdes que en una noche de tragos invita a su casa a los muertos. Sueño o realidad.

I owe him a debt. A big one. The payment can't be settled with money or favors. He only wants one thing. Me. Every action gets a reward. A button. Once I fill his jar with three hundred and sixty five buttons he'll let me go. He'll let me walk away. But I have to earn every single one. By submitting to the darkest, cruelest, and most beautiful man I'd ever known. ***TRIGGER WARNING*** There are some difficult and dark scenes that may upset some readers.

En esta obra, tan divertida como "Bridget Jones" o "Sexo en Nueva York", Sonia Urbano muestra cómo muchas mujeres seguimos buscando a nuestro Príncipe Azul, aunque nos empeñemos en negarlo. Para desmitificar a los hombres aparentemente ideales, la autora narra cómo es la vida al lado de cada uno de los prototipos de chico romántico, identificándolos con un personaje cinematográfico que reúne sus cualidades (y defectos). Porque, ¿qué chica no ha soñado con un hombre de película? Así veremos cómo la protagonista cena con un amigo tan misterioso como Batman, se despierta con otro...

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could ...