Nunca supe dejar de amar a ninguno de los tres

Desde la caída del régimen nazi que tanto luchó por defender, repite una y otra vez la misma frase: "El crimen del soldado es la derrota." Su hija, en cambio, cree que hay crímenes injustifi cables, como los de su padre. En Ischia, donde su padre la lleva cada año de vacaciones de verano, un muchacho sordomudo le enseña a flotar sobre el agua. Durante toda su vida, éste es el único signo de ligereza que conocerá. Ser hija de un criminal de guerra es vivir atrapada bajo el peso de una roca.

Chile's prize-winning novel of rebellious defiance in revolutionary prose--a feminist triumph of Joycean stature.

Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. Renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to recreate the author's original text word by word.

This classic novel about the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and dominance of the Rio Grande Valley is available for the first time in Spanish. Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so...