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Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a...

Como cuenta en su delicioso prólogo Derroteros de un periodista poco nato, Alfredo Bryce Echenique reúne en este libro su admiración por los grandes ases del nuevo periodismo -Capote, Mailer, Wolfe, Talese- y cómo llegó a la conclusión de que, en todo tra

Primera entrega de la saga «Aníbal». Ben Kane nos presenta una apasionante historia que gira en torno al mítico héroe que da título a la obra. Durante la Primera Guerra Púnica, las legiones romanas derrotaron a Cartago, su único rival en todo el Mediterráneo. Pero hoy Aníbal, un brillante general cartaginés, prepara la venganza. Paralelamente, dos jóvenes (Hanno, el hijo de un confidente de Aníbal, y Quinto, hijo de un terrateniente) se verán inmersos en un periplo que amenaza, cuando ya se oyen tambores de guerra, con destrozar la amistad entre dos chicos criados en imperios...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...