Una arcada en la garganta del cielo

La autora best seller internacional Emelie Schepp nos presenta a la enigmatica e inolvidable Jana Berzelius en esta novela de suspenso."

Ambientadas en las pequeñas aldeas del oeste de Islandia, las historias de Jón Kalman Stefánsson exploran con sutileza los laberintos del alma humana a la par que destilan una visión poética de la existencia. Considerado el escritor más importante de su generación, el prestigio de Stefánsson se ha incrementado fuera de su país hasta ser reconocido como uno de los escritores europeos más relevantes del momento. Esta nueva edición de la primera parte de la «Trilogía del muchacho» —que se completa con La tristeza de los ángeles y El corazón del hombre, de reciente...

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...

Mara, a cello built in 1711 by the famous Antonio Stradivarius that inherited its name from the notorious virtuoso Mara, tells his adventurous life story that includes circling the globe several times, performing in Italy, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and the Court of England, as well as playing for kings and commoners alike in cathedrals, castles, promenade concerts in modern philharmonic halls, and still enchanting audiences to this day.