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"El visitante de museos es, por lo general, alguien a quien no le interesan los museos, alguien a quien apenas le interesa el arte. De todos es sabido que a los museos no se va a disfrutar, sino a decir que se ha ido. Es más: la visita al museo es, por principio, una verdadera experiencia funeraria. No puede ser de otra forma, dado que, en cierto sentido, todo museo es un cementerio de la cultura. Así las cosas, los vigilantes somos como los enterradores y los guías como los predicadores y charlatanes de las exequias. Por eso, la actitud de los visitantes de museos no es muy diferente de...

Destitute and terrorized by a nameless pursuer, thirty-four-year-old Victoria Childers has only one thing of value left—her innocence. Its price will buy her safety. But Gabriel, the dangerously beautiful man who purchases her, doesn't want her virginity—he wants the man who stalks her. Trapped together in a house where every desire can be fulfilled, Victoria and Gabriel are plunged into a deadly game of passion and pursuit, where the greatest threat is carnal hunger and the only rule is survival.

A través de sus cuentos basados en hechos históricos, Antonia Cortijos describe con maestría la intriga, la pasión, los celos y las mezquindades humanas.

Jose Antonio Villarreal illuminates here the world of pochos, Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans--whatever their past.