La fuerza del destino

Winner of the National Book Award for Best First Novel: Ann Arensberg’s celebrated work tells a hallucinatory tale of sexual desire, jealousy, and savage love On a June night in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Marit Deym prowls her land, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the van from the Dangerfield Zoo. When it finally comes—hours late—five wolves leap out onto the sprawling wildlife refuge Marit has created. And then one night, the wolves bring a stranger to her door. A poetry instructor at a school for the blind, Gabriel Frankman lives in self-imposed exile after the death of...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud―whose...

Ellos, cuentos delicados, no por frágiles o tímidos, si no por que su mirada pasa frente a nosotros sin estridencias: se hacen notar en su andar.

Verano. Dos llamadas telefonicas rompen el silencio de la noche, desatando desde la oscuridad dos principios que quiza lleven a dos finales distintos: Bruno pierde a su pareja en un accidente de trafico en plena madrugada. Minutos despues el telefono le devuelve la existencia de Julia, una hija a la que juro no conocer jamas y que ahora le reclama desde el otro lado del Atlantico. Julia esta llena de porques. Quiere saber. Llegan entonces los secretos, las confesiones, tambien los encuentros... A medida que Bruno compone para Julia esta intima balada de padre en la distancia, cinco voces de...