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"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,...

Pieza fundamental de la narrativa de Mario Benedetti, "Gracias por el fuego" novela una historia de frustraciones: la frustración de un asesinato y una frustración personal que es a la vez reflejo de la frustración general en que se mueve un país. El fracaso de Ramón Budiño, que planea primero el asesinato de su padre y se reconoce después incapaz de llevarlo a cabo, se debe en buena medida a la actitud general de una sociedad que no tolera gestos dramáticos. Sin embargo, el radical desacomodo de clase, creencias, sentimientos, profesión y memoria del protagonista juega también un...

MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "You'd be mad not to try her." The Age "A master of her craft." Better Reading "Action, heartbreak and romance aplenty." Australian Bookseller & Publisher "An extraordinary storyteller." Book'd Out A humble soldier wakes in a military hospital with no recollection of his past. Jones has only a few horrifying memories of the battlefield at Ypres, and his identity becomes a puzzle he must solve. A stunning seamstress dreams of her own high-fashion salon in London. After a fated meeting with Jones, Eden Valentine is driven to help the soldier by something more...

La analista de inteligencia Rachel Sexton y el oceanógrafo Michael Tolland forman parte del equipo de expertos enviados por la Casa Blanca a un remoto lugar del Ártico, con la misión de autentificar el fabuloso hallazgo que ha realizado la NASA. Un descub