Del Águila Al Aguilucho

Durante el tiempo que pas en las islas portuguesas de Porto Santo y Madeira, Cristbal Coln, un navegante de Gnova, estuvo a cargo de un marinero moribundo, de Castilla, cuya carabela haba sido llevado por la corriente del Golfo de Guinea a un mar remoto, posiblemente el Caribe. En su lecho de muerte, este hombre haba dicho Columbus el secreto de algunas tierras donde haban llegado siberianos durante el Pleistoceno y algunos documentos sobre algunos de los posibles viajes anteriores. Este marinero asegur que esas tierras que haba logrado llevado por las corrientes eran los mismos que se...

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.

Samantha Taylor, the beautiful, successful assistant director of the second largest advertising agency in the country, heads for California and the horse ranch owned by an old friend after her boss, afraid that her struggle to cope with her failed marriage is leading to a nervous breakdown, forces her to take a three-month leave of absence.

Kit, the Marquis of Ashton, is in a bind. He got married young, but he knows he had made a huge mistake from day one. Jess realizes she has put her marriage in jeopardy without trying. She would love to be able to explain things to her husband. She feels the time is now. Will she get the chance?

Como todas mis novelas, se trata de una historia de amor, mas esta, también, digamos de enredos y, espero, para mi satisfacción de escritora, que mis estimados lectores se sientan inmersos en la trama y no descubran la verdad hasta el final, aunque yo he dado muchas pistas para hacerlo más creíble. Solamente diré, por el momento, que la protagonista es una niña mimada, consentida, malcriada y caprichosa que tropieza con la horma de su zapato.