Eugenia de Montijo

La noche antes de morir, Hitler entrego a su guardaespaldas un libro con una clave secreta: Pathologia sexualis, escrito por su compatriota Krafft-Ebbing. Anos despues, el libro llega a manos de Cristofol Molferrut -un corrupto y poderoso personaje nacido

The night before her first day as a middle-school teacher, Celeste Price fiercely masturbates. She is a young and beautiful woman with a husband 17 years older than her. He is a police officer, as gorgeous as she is. At school Celeste cares little for anything but her pleasure and recounts her elaborate, determined, and sociopathic seduction of a 14-year-old student.

Aquesta novel·la epistolar, escrita probablement el 1794, narra els plans de la protagonista, lady Susan, enviudada fa poc, de trobar un nou marit, a la vegada que intenta casar la seva filla de setze anys. Austen se serveix d’aquest gènere per construir una obra en la qual les diverses cartes encaixen com si fossin peces d’un trencaclosques fins a completar davant els ulls del lector una història de petites intrigues. L’obra subverteix totes les normes de la novel·la romàntica: lady Susan hi té un paper actiu; no tan sols és bonica, sinó també intel·ligent i enginyosa, i els...

Claudio is Cuban, lives in New York and works at a publishing house. Cecilia is Mexican, lives in Paris and is a student. He keeps the memories of his past in Havana; now he has to face a complicated relationship with Ruth. She remembers her tough teenage years; now she has a relationship with Tom, a frail health boy. It will be during a trip to Paris when Claudio and Cecilia's destinies intersect.