Margarita y su Cuba adorada

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

El protagonista de esta novela se acuesta con las mujeres para redimirlas de sus soledades, traumas y represiones, pero resulta siempre victimizado por ellas. Es un redentor reventado por los misterios femeninos que nunca terminará de develar y un fracasado que insiste en fracasar y que al final no tiene sino un refugio: su arte. Este consultor erótico y sentimental se empañará lo mismo en desvirgar a una adolescente que en darle placer a una mujer de doscientos kilos, siempre guiado por un profesionalismo sin par.

"With all the feels of a This Is Us episode, Hyde's latest novel will delight readers" (Booklist). Three adult siblings. Three days with their father. What could go wrong? When Murray Blaire invites his three children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects things to be pleasant. But when Ruth and George arrive already bickering and Lizzie turns up late, cradling a damaged family cookbook and talking about possible criminal charges against her, all hope for a relaxing family weekend is gone. This is not the first time the Blaire family has been thrown into...

Erasmo -un excéntrico profesor jubilado, entusiasta de la literatura de los Siglos de Oro- convence a su ex alumna Pilar para que emprendan una aventura en apariencia desquiciada: encontrar el manuscrito del Quijote cervantino. Para ello habrán de seguir un relato donde se narran las vicisitudes de un tal Miguel de Cervantes, el robo de su novela sobre un hidalgo de La Mancha y la intervención en el asunto de otro escritor llamado Lope de Vega. Pero lo que parecía ser una apacible indagación entre bibliotecas y bibliófilos pronto se convertirá en una peligrosa aventura de final...