A Place in the Sun

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Fukushima mon amour combina una apasionada aventura con la experiencia del autor durante la cobertura del tsunami de Japón y los testimonios de los damnificados que conoció mientras recorría la costa nipona. Tras la catástrofe, mientras todo el planeta teme una explosión nuclear en la siniestrada central de Fukushima 1, un periodista occidental que ha acudido a cubrir la noticia vive un surrealista romance con una mujer nipona que, desencantada con su matrimonio, abre los ojos a su triste existencia. En medio del pánico general, ambos viajan por la costa devastada por olas que...

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Felipe es un adolescente bogotano que sueña con ser futbolista y con rodar películas de amor signadas por la tragedia. Pero anhela, por encima de todas las cosas, estar en una relación con su compañero de clase y de equipo de fútbol Leonardo. A tientas, guiado por su afecto, este joven de 16 años se abre camino por las sendas del primer amor, consciente de pertenecer a una sociedad que,cegada por sus prejuicios, se le dificulta dialogar con otras formas de amar y deser amado. Ambientada en Bogotá a finales de los años ochenta, Un beso de Dick es una historia de amor de inmensa...