La Española - Isla de Encuentros / Hispaniola - Island of Encounters

What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

"Once upon a time there was a brave little silver colored fish. He swam around in the big blue sea and came upon a very large black object. What happens next and how it finishes, is what this book is about!"

“En un principio me atrajo un interrogante que aparecía con contundencia en su narrativa- acerca de la femineidad. Sin embargo, a medida que me fui adentrando en el tema, comprendí que las novelas de la autora bien podrían haber sido tratados de sociología, porque el aliento que impulsa su creación literaria es una pregunta en torno a la naturaleza y a la cultura, al hecho que produce la humanización, a la ley que hace vínculo social. Y anudados a dichos conceptos, el hombre y la mujer, implicados en la misma epopeya, situados cada uno en uno de los dos lados, aderezados con los...

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.