Los guardianes del tiempo

In this critically acclaimed novel, Harry Rent finds himself young and single and lost after the passing of his wife. Although numbed by his life's unexpected turn, Harry becomes fixated on Molly, an obsidian-haired, twenty-two-year-old waitress. Meanwhile, Harry is forced to fend off Clare, his sister-in-law, who is convinced that Harry is somehow responsible for her sister's untimely death. At once deeply moving and darkly comedic, Harry, Revised is an extraordinary novel about the measure of a man's worth by a wonderful, emerging talent.

Esta obra constituye, en primer lugar, una serie de ensayos de divulgación científica a los que -dice el autor- une una característica muy especial: su intención literaria. La idea rectora de todo este texto -añade Díaz- es la unidad final del conocimiento humano. Se trata, pues, de un manuscrito ambicioso aunque, es mi esperanza, legible, ameno e informativo.

«Matar es fácil, lo difícil es ser una periodista de sucesos en un país donde oficialmente nunca pasa nada.» Inspirada en Margarita Landi, la célebre reportera de El Caso, Aurora Blanco es un personaje inolvidable. Marzo de 1953, una mujer es atropellada en una carretera comarcal de la provincia de Salamanca. Pocas horas después, el camillero del hospital de la capital llama por teléfono a Aurora Blanco, una conocida reportera de sucesos de Madrid, para comunicarle que la víctima ya estaba herida antes de ser arrollada. Cuando la periodista llega al hospital, la mujer ha...

Published to coincide with the Anchor Books edition of Peel My Love Like an Onion, this Spanish translation is a major addition to the Vintage Español list. Equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody, Carmen la coja is Ana Castillo's imaginative variation on the themes of Bizet's Carmen, set in the Latin community of Chicago and the seductive world of flamenco. Carmen "La Coja" Santos is a renowned local dancer who has long maintained an affair with the great Agustín, the married director of her troupe. An angry rivalry is sparked when she begins a passionate new liaison with...