La sirena de Gibraltar

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla’s home, this encounter sets her on a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life—and to make a wrenching decision...

La novela cuenta la huida de Pierre y Sonia en busca de la felicidad, y su llegada a Ketama, donde trabarán una entrañable relación con sus habitantes, pero también con la corrupción y la injusticia de los poderosos. Una emocionada exaltación de las pequeñas cosas y de la solidaridad, así como un canto amargo y desesperado al amor, cuyo destino es la locura.

Through the years, said Gunter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feeling of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been the same: take at fault the complexity of a friend. That shortage is the way of Glands, a novel by Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo where memory takes a lead role. Starting from the narrators own memories, full of humor and melancholy, they outline what forms a friendship filled with sexual adventures, jilted lovers and jealousy, intrigues, painful affairs and death.

El exitoso autor Dean Cassidy ha vivido con la desgracia de amar a dos mujeres durante demasiado tiempo. Durante veintidós años ha amado a su esposa profundamente, pero el sol nunca se ha puesto un día en el que las imágenes del amor de su niñez no hayan aparecido en su mente - imágenes doradas con recuerdos de oro de la juventud.