Las cosas por su nombre

In this collection of short stories there are issues such as the anxious await by employees for new management that will approve salary increases, the calm awakening of a man on his day off from work, and a woman telling a man that she is the mother of his child. These most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s concise and clear prose.

Katherina y Scott solo tienen en común una cosa: la reforma de los majestuosos jardines de Lambert Resort. Ella es la gerente del hotel de lujo; él el paisajista contratado. Ella es metódica y fría; él un seductor que siempre llega tarde.Ella adora el orden y la limpieza; él… él no tiene orden ni en su vida. De la limpieza, mejor no hablamos. La vida no se lo ha puesto fácil, no tienen fe en el amor, no buscan una relación, pero eso ya da igual. La reforma lo ha puesto todo patas arriba y el destino les va a dar una lección.Porque el amor puede ser salvaje como la tormenta,...

Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10—Francois de Borbón-Vendôme, the prince of Martigues—finds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her savior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame...

Maritza Barton delights us with a cookbook featuring dozens of recipes based on curative foods. The result is a series of delicious dishes that will help us to cure different ailments.