Civilizaciones

"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,...

Uma mulher é encontrada queimada e pendurada numa corda pelos pés, com a cabeça imersa dentro de um antigo caldeirão de bronze, cheio de água. A autópsia revela a primeira surpresa: a vítima estava grávida. E a investigação que se segue aponta para outra conclusão surpreendente: o crime tem todos os contornos de um macabro ritual celta. O profiler Unai “Kraken” acaba por se ver envolvido no caso, mesmo sem querer. Afinal, a mulher morta, como rapidamente será informado, foi a sua primeira namorada, com quem se tinha envolvido décadas antes. Nessa mesma altura, ele e o seu...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

'No era a esto a lo que veníamos' es un libro sobre el terror de la normalidad. Sus personajes luchan por integrarse en un cosmos que legitime su existencia: el del amor romántico, el de la maternidad, el de la urbanización con piscina, el del trabajo asalariado, el de la familia tradicional. Una codiciada normalidad que, poco a poco, se irá convirtiendo en un territorio hostil y desasosegante, donde la vida es a menudo difícil de sostener. Después de su fulgurante debut con Historia de España contada a las niñas, María Bastarós vuelve a sorprendernos con estos relatos de...