SOMOS O NO SOMOS

Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status, race, and class, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for...

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text.

Memorias de una superviviente es una de las novelas más reconocidas de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007. En una ciudad caótica donde las ratas y las bandas de jóvenes errantes siembran el pánico, donde el gobierno se ha colapsado e impera la violencia irracional, una mujer -de mediana edad y clase media- queda al cargo de una niña de doce años a la cual debe criar. Este libro, que la autora ha definido como «un intento de autobiografía», es el diario de esa mujer: un atisbo a un futuro no más horrendo que cualquier presente, una mirada a las fuerzas que pueden...

Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family. "Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness...