El Secreto de Mi Madre

Libertad Arregui is a young reporter sent to El Salvador in the late eighties. Through her television chronicles along with her camera partner Íñigo Santolaya - a tragic and hilarious man marked by the Vietnam War - we witness the most fateful events that took place in that forgotten war in Central America: the assassination of Ellacuría and the Jesuits, the Sumpul river massacre, the Colomoncagua refugee camps and the first exhumations. "The Jungle Under my Skin is also the journey of a son who wants to find his origins. And to settle the scores of life, he has a manuscript that was given ...

El heterodoxo psiquiatra Zack Busner llega en 1971 al Friern Hospital, un gigantesco manicomio victoriano situado en el norte de Londres, en medio de una tormenta profesional y matrimonial. Pretende evitar las polémicas, pero allí conoce a Audrey Dearth, una mujer de clase trabajadora que lleva decenios encerrada en Friern en estado de coma profundo, y decide intentar despertarla a la vida con un revolucionario tratamiento. Los recuerdos que conserva Audrey de un Londres anterior a 1918, el año en que cayó enferma, de sus amantes, su participación en tempranos movimientos socialistas y...

Juan, un informático treintañero, vive con angustia los momentos previos al confinamiento y la primera semana de encierro por el coronavirus en el centro de Madrid. Mientras se clausuran colegios y universidades, comienza a hacer acopio de víveres y a estar cada vez más preocupado por lo que le espera. En su caso, un aislamiento en soledad, con una crisis de pareja en curso, su familia lejos y nadie en su inmueble aparte de una vecina, su perro... y unos turistas con síntomas de estar contagiados.

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...