El libro de los amigos ; Relatos

What secret did Juan Ponce de León discover in Florida? Commanding two ships and two hundred men, the Spanish conqueror landed in 1521 in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth. After endless incidents, they believe to have found it in a thousand-year-old temple but, far from its rejuvenating effects, the elixir had a very different power than that attributed by legend. Ponce de León wanted to take it to Spain so that the emperor, taking advantage of its prodigious effects, could conquer the Holy Places of Jerusalem, held by the Ottomans. Five centuries later, that mysterious fluid...

"UN GIOCO DI RUOLO AFFASCINANTE, CHE DIMOSTRA COME IL THRILLER ESOTERICO POSSA SPOSARSI MERAVIGLIOSAMENTE CON LA BUONA LETTERATURA." Sud Ouest Luglio 1918. La famiglia imperiale russa viene giustiziata dai rivoluzionari. Per salvarsi lo zar Nicola II sarebbe disposto a rivelare dove si trova la quarta svastica, ma viene ucciso prima di poterlo fare. Luglio 1942. Mai l'esito del conflitto mondiale è parso così incerto. Se l'Inghilterra sembra aver evitato ogni rischio d'invasione, la Russia di Stalin si sta piegando sotto i colpi degli eserciti di Hitler. L'Europa è a un punto di svolta....

En este libro, Fidel Sepúlveda se adentra en diez novelas señeras –Pedro Páramo, Rayuela, La casa verde, El obsceno pájaro de la noche, Cien años de soledad, La región más transparente, Los pasos perdidos, Los ríos profundos, Boquitas pintadas, y Tres tristes tigres– y esboza un perfil del ser hispanoamericano. Hispanoamérica en Diez Novelas corresponde a la tesis doctoral del autor, presentada para obtener el grado de Doctor en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde fue calificada como Sobresaliente Cum Laude. Este trabajo obtuvo el Premio...

A professional hunter returns to Johannesburg from a safari in Tanzania, to find that his wife has started a relationship with another man. She wants a divorce. Still reeling under the impact, he receives a phone call from his brother, a missionary pilot in Colombia, whose daughter was abducted by FARC guerillas. He catches a flight to South America the next morning.The two brothers track the kidnappers down to a remote jungle camp, where a Canadian medical doctor, kidnapped a month earlier, is also held captive. In the events that follow, both pilot and hunter are confronted by...