La sombra de Juana de Arco

"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been...

Adúltera es una obra polémica y moralizante, escrita por José Martí a los diecinueve años, durante su primer destierro de Cuba, en España. En medio de una exigencia extrema de lealtad, el autor retrata diferentes aristas de la especie humana a través de personajes de marcado carácter alegórico. Adúltera tiene un final trágico: el amante muere a manos del marido traicionado y enloquecido. Martí escribió después sobre el asunto que lo inspiró a escribir esta obra: "A los dieciocho años de mi vida estuve, por las vanidades de la edad, abocado a una grave culpa. Lo rojo brilla y...

Someone wants JC dead, and Adrian is the only thing standing in the way. Has war followed them home? Or is something more sinister at play? JC struggles to understand his place in the world, and despite being wealthy beyond imagination, he’s never found real happiness outside of his friendship with Adrian. Enlisting in the army is his attempt at finding purpose, but tragedy strikes, and only the Ellery Veterans Center can help put back the pieces of his shattered life. With a bullet fragment in his brain and seemingly no hope of ever being the man he once was, he begins to lose courage....

Las novelas de iniciación que nos marcan suelen ser aquellas que muestran la infancia, no como un lugar idealizado, sino como el espacio de matices oscuros que puede llegar a ser. De acuerdo con el prólogo de Lola Ancira, Todo ángel es terrible "rompió el silencio sobre cuestiones satanizadas por la sociedad mexicana ligadas con la frustración y la sexualidad. El resultado es una obra deleitosa, de gran calidad literaria y profundamente reflexiva".