La mujer única

A collection of short stores that contain traces of Cuban culture as well customs from the state of Tennessee, where the author, a medical doctor, practiced for many years.

"American business executive Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant old college roommate is facing in China. After twenty years he expects to pick up where they left off. But when they're reunited in China, the men are shocked at what they discover about each other. Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness, watched by unseen eyes, both must make choices that will determine not only the destinies of two men, but two families, two nations...and two worlds.

«La besa con suavidad, al principio, luego tira de su cabello y la obliga a levantar el mentón. Ambos se miran a los ojos. Entonces la vuelve a besar, ésta vez con más avidez. Los dedos de la otra mano se aventuran bajo los misterios de su falda, ascendiendo desde la rodilla derecha. Ella tiembla en sus brazos, pero él la sostiene con fuerza, inmovilizándola». James y Andrea están aburridos de su vida sexual predecible. Ambos sueñan con emociones placenteras, pero nunca han discutido sus fantasías el uno con el otro. En su viaje a París deciden tener una relación abierta y por...

Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" /The New York Times ...