La maldición del brujo-leopardo

Madrid, verano de 1947. Emilio, botones del hotel París, junto con sus compañeros Tomás y Javier, serán los protagonistas principales encargados de transportarles en una aventura enmarcada en tiempos de posguerra, repletos de anhelos, penas e ilusiones. La novela se fortalece con guiños de Historia, convirtiéndola en una grata experiencia donde América es la meta de sus sueños.

Él la acepta pero no la ama... Donovan James Arthur Sinclair, octavo duque de Manchester, está maldito a vagar por la Tierra como un cambia-lobos. La mayor parte de los días no le importa la bestia, pues la vida de un duque es bastante espléndida, pero resulta agotadora si es sincero consigo mismo. Cuando salva a una señorita del campo de un carruaje fuera de control en un pueblo rural, se le ocurre que podría estar equivocado. Ella lo ama pero no puede aceptar lo que él es en realidad... La señorita Alice Morrowe, es ciega y está firmemente en el estante, no amada y no deseada por...

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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...