La carta de Cayo

En esta novela, según muchos la más importante en el conjunto de su obra, Andréiev compone una crónica monumental sobre la naturaleza humana a partir de las tragedias individuales de un grupo de condenados a muerte y en el contexto algo más lejano, pero siempre dominante, de un rústico régimen que castiga todo empeño por la libertad, ya sea que esta tome la forma de la redención subjetiva o del ansia de liberación social.

Del robo del Tláloc a los amores de El Ratón y el Rayo Láser; de Hammett persiguiendo la cabeza de Pancho Villa al Misterio de la Araña; del narco túnel que conecta Juárez con Disneylandia a las maldades de un enano salinista en España; de un grupo de apaches urbanos que organizan huelgas a las aventuras de Máscara Azteca, y de doña Eustolia armada con un cuchillo cebollero a las manos apestosas de un pistolero de la judicial, estas 35 narraciones escritas a lo largo de cuarenta años y reunidas por primera vez en este asombroso volumen son, sin duda, una fiesta para los lectores.

Amelia Cynster is stunned to hear these words from Lucien Ashfordthe enigmatic sixth Viscount Calverton and the man she has always lovedjust before the handsome rogue passes out at her feet. Dawn is breaking and she's already risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London home. And though torn between indignant affront and astonished relief, she's nevertheless thrilled that Luc has agreed to her outrageous marriage proposal. However, rather than submitting to a hasty wedding as Amelia had planned, the exasperating lord insists on wooing her properlyin public and in private....

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.