El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira

Clásico contemporáneo, llevada al cine por Bernardo Bertolucci, El cielo protector es la novela que consagró a Paul Bowles, uno de los más grandes escritores norteamericanos del siglo XX. Narra el derrotero de Port y Kit Moresby, un refinado matrimonio que tras doce años de unión y con la casi certeza de que su relación ha encallado, deciden viajar al norte de África. Los acompaña un amigo, Turner, acaba de terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, viven holgadamente de la herencia que el padre dejó a Port, y se supone que la travesía habrá de devolverlos a una plenitud perdida. Sin...

Daisy Lake is just a childhood memory for successful lawyer Gavin Carmichael, but for some reason, he has never been able to forget her. One day, during a dinner at a fancy club, he discovers that the girl he once knew has become the famous music hall singer Delilah du Lac. Gavin wants to save her from that life, but all Daisy wants is to be on stage. Perhaps Gavin could make this dream come true? She has slept with men for less. As they spend more time together, which one will end up enslaved by love?

Esta obra reúne una serie de cuentos con personajes propios de Tulcán, una pequeña ciudad en los Andes ecuatorianos, un lugar lleno de misterios e historias singulares, donde deambula en la cotidianidad el realismo mágico. Cuentos que al lector seguramente le atraparán porque le conducirán a vivir en otro mundo, lleno de colores y sucesos fascinantes, que le invitarán a soñar.

Two literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start to their literary careers which, under the leadership of who would become one of the most powerful literary agents in the world, will lead them both to have millions of readers in all corners of the planet and to be awarded the Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize among many other recognitions. Until one day, in Mexico...