Una novela rosa

Como todas las creaciones que pulsan los resortes más escondidos del ser humano, la figura de Peter Pan, el niño que no quería crecer, no ha cesado de agigantarse en el imaginario del hombre moderno desde que en 1911 James M. Barrie (1860-1937) publicara en forma de narración la obra de teatro que siete años antes había alcanzado ya inmenso éxito en Londres. Animado por personajes de una capacidad de sugestión que poco tiene que envidiar a la del propio Peter Pan como Campanilla, Wendy o el capitán Garfio-, el magistral relato concebido por Barrie participa tanto del cuento de hadas...

This English translation of Entre letras y ladrillos (Bilingual Press, 1996), an autobiographical novel written in the best of Miguel Mendez's baroque and conceptually intense style, evokes one of the most remarkable life histories of this century. Using his own "status as a Mexican Indian, wetback, and Chicano" as a yardstick, he takes us on a personal and collective voyage that culminates on a remarkable day in 1986 when he exchanged his job of full-time construction worker for that of full professor at the University of Arizona.

La obra describe un apasionado juego erotico ambientado en Napoles. La condesa de Belflor pretende a a Teodoro, su secretario, quien a su vez ama a Marcela, dama de compania de la condesa y esto se extiende en una cadena de deseo que incluye a un escudero de la corte.

A picturesque small town, a cozy community garden, a facade of tolerance and acceptance - but when three women with wildly different loyalties come together, what secrets and lies will be revealed? Tara Hooper is at breaking point. With two young children, a business in a town struggling under an unexpected crime wave, and her husband more interested in his sports team than their marriage, life is a juggling act. When new neighbors arrive and they’re exactly the sort of people the town doesn't want or need, things get worse. Life has taught Helen Demetriou two things: being homeless is...