Dos lunas para Sofía

Marta is hard as a diamond. Her comments intimidate and her voice is sharp. Anyone who knows her would think she's too young to be so bitter. But in Marta's past there are powerful reasons that have shaped her character. Her present is full of questions. Especially since she saw him again.

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

• Nuestra Señora de París (1831) • Los Miserables (1862) • Poesía • A mi hija (Como un niño Jesús, allá en tu infancia) • Confrontaciones (¡Hablad! ¡hablad, cadáveres!) • Desdén (No es de admirar que en cólera no estalle) • El canto de los piratas (Con cien cautivos llevamos) • El estanque (El estanque y el hombre son semejantes:) • Esperanza en Dios (¡Joven! Espera, espera) • La conciencia (Furiosa tempestad se desataba) • Necedad de la guerra (Estúpida Penélope, de sangre bebedora,) • Nomen, numen, lumen (Cuando EL ya su obra terminado había,) •...

Ivanhoe es la historia de una de las familias nobles sajonas en un momento en que la nobleza en Inglaterra era abrumadoramente normanda. La novela sigue al protagonista sajón, Sir Wilfred de Ivanhoe, que ha caído en desgracia con su padre por su lealtad al rey normando Ricardo Corazón de León.

When Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' first novel was published last year, it caused a sensation. Readers flocked to the story of six friends in Boston because both the voice and the characters Valdes-Rodriguez created were utterly fresh. A brand new, large, and eager audience came out for a book they felt had been created just for them-young American women whose Hispanic side had been overlooked by commercial novels until The Dirty Girls Social Club. In Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' delicious new novel-each a Latina in her late 20's -take Los Angeles by storm in Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' delicious new novel. ...