Terrenal, mágico y absolutamente encantador, este relato de la vida familiar en el México finisecular se convirtió, con la mezcla acertada de romance doloroso e ingenio agridulce, en un fenómeno de best-seller. La clásica historia de amor se sitúa en el rancho De la Garza, mientras la dueña tiránica Mamá Elena corta cebolla en la mesa de cocina durante sus últimos días de embarazo. Aún dentro del útero de su madre, la futura hija llora...

"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...

"Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen, and anxious, Berta's new husband has become a stranger...

Sofia y Ambrose estaban destinados a colisionar en Cudillero. Ella iba todos los veranos. El vivia alli. Dos desconocidos que cayeron abrazados a la piscina aquel mes de julio... Cinco anos despues, Sofia vuelve dispuesta a cumplir una vieja promesa y romper cualquier vinculo que le ate a Ambrose. Pero el esta distinto.En su intensa mirada azul hay una dureza desconocida. Y todo se complica. Da igual lo que intente apartarle de su mente, recuerda...

"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...

"In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-or "the misfortune," as his cancer-ridden father's caretaker calls it, Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and infirm. Stripped of his driver's license and feeling impotent as he nears...

A short story about the wonder of childhood and how these feelings continue to resonate in adult life. The short story "Uma luz inesperada" published with illustrations by Armando Fonseca in 2022 by Porto Editora was originally published in the Portuguese periodical Jornal do Fundão in 1972 under the title "E também aqueles dias". In it, Još Saramago recalls an apparently common passage from his childhood: the days he went to help his uncle sell...

Primera edicion Vintage Espanol.

Harry vive con sus horribles t©Ưos y el insorportable primo Dudley, hasta que su ingreso en el Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicer©Ưa cambia su vida para siempre. All©Ư aprender©Ł trucos y encantamientos fabulosos, y har©Ł un pu©łado de buenos amigos... aunque tambi©♭n algunos temibles enemigos. Y, sobre todo, conocero los secretos que lo ayudar©Łn a cumplir con su destino. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle,...