LA DIASPORA DE LOS GATOS

A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author Toru Okada's cat has disappeared His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession ...

Rienzi el tribuno es un drama dividido en dos actos y un epílogo. Es un alegato contra la tiranía influido por la corriente renovadora del teatro historicista romántico. La pieza se estrenó en Madrid en el teatro del Circo. La representación de esta obra le concedió a Rosario de Acuña y Villanueva la distinción de ser la segunda mujer del siglo XIX que estrenaba una pieza dramática en el Teatro Español de Madrid.

Apasionante y adictiva, EL SOMMELIER, narra dos historias que se unirán en el tiempo, donde el amor, la tragedia, las drogas o la prostitución coactiva de mujeres indefensas e invisibles, son elementos cotidianos del mundo que nos ha tocado vivir, todo ello rodeado del escenario más seductor, la elaboración, cata y degustación del buen vino. Durante la noche de San Juan, la trama de la novela entremezcla la época actual y la pasada del protagonista, y junto a la narración en dos tiempos, se combinan elementos haciendo la lectura más ágil, dando mayor realismo a la historia y...

Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family. "Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness...