Hermana. (Placer)

A story that develops themes of identity while exploring the deeper sources of love and the mysterious bond that both unites, as well as separates, parents and children. The story begins with the unusual visit of a father to the home of his son on a Sunday morning. This visit, unexpected and mysterious, ends in the two of them visiting the cemetery. This shared trip becomes a rich framework for exploration and meditation on their lives, their disappointments, their silences and the paradox of the distance between them despite the deep love that binds them.

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...

Como explica en su introducción José Olivio Jiménez, preparador de esta edición, PROSAS PROFANAS (1896) representa no sólo la cumbre del esteticismo de RUBÉN DARÍO, sino un hito decisivo en la evolución personal del genial nicaragüense. En esta obra, la extraordinaria «armonía verbal» del poeta no es sino la carnadura expresiva de la «melodía ideal» perseguida por aquél: la consecuencia de la Belleza, la Búsqueda de la Unidad. El presente volumen, además de las notas necesarias para la comprensión de los poemas, incorpora las páginas que sobre «Prosas profanas» escribió ...

La narrativa vertiginosa y original de Mo Yan resulta deliciosa para el lector, que queda irremediablemente atrapado en la trama. El monólogo de un taciturno y solitario personaje, habitual del bulevar, marca el punto de partida de esta historia llena de un virtuosismo deslumbrante. Arrastrado a un restaurante especializado en raviolis, a nuestro héroe no le quedará más alternativa que someterse a la charla caprichosa y a la verborrea hilarante de un amigo de la infancia. Saltando de un tema a otro sin control, en la conversación se entremezclan tanto opiniones sin fundamento como...