Bajo las sombras

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...

It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request � think of a number, any number � and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number. When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he�s been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed. Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else was he able to predict his...

In the tradition of the Mexican masters Rosario Castellanos or Juan Rulfo, Rose Mary Salum creates an aura of fantasy that goes beyond the mere narration of telling a story. It submerges the reader into a dream/like experience without disconnecting itself from a magical plot of realities that will ultimately take you to experience the universal emotions of love, death and life.

Esta edicion ofrece la unica novela de Marti. Lucia Jerez es una novela modernista de alta estatura literaria y de intencion innovadora en el panorama narrativo de su epoca. La tragica y tortuosa historia de amor da pie para penetrar en la organizacion social, cultural y politica de la Hispanoamerica finisecular.