El mejor amigo de mi hermano

Each heart-pounding, fast-paced story in this collection features lively writing and young characters who come into contact with the tricks and illusions on life's darker side. A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit to the hospital for a tonsillectomy takes a ghoulish turn. Each story begins with an author's introduction that explains how the idea for it came to him, and features a spooky illustration by artists such as Edward Koren and Bleu Turrell. Historias más sombrías jamás contadas son reunidas en este libro...

Una propuesta de madurez narrativa que pone el broche de oro a la brillante obra de la autora de Nada y La insolación. Al volver la esquina es una novela de personajes inusuales y complejos. En una época de carencias y pobreza, el protagonista, un pintor bohemio que busca sentido a su existencia, se reencuentra, en una lluviosa noche toledana, con viejas amistades de la adolescencia. Rebrotan entonces, irremisiblemente, el amor y la amistad, la fascinación por el espíritu libre, rayano en la extravagancia, de esa familia que yacía olvidada en el pasado. Le arrastra la corriente y decide...

The three stories in this book were made from memories. Two happen in the peak of the ballad, the third one after the fall in a historical abyss. "Each story begins with a similar scene: the same man and woman have lunch in a Havana restaurant on a rainy Friday afternoon. The relationship to each other and to their country is exposed through their thoughts and conversations, with the last story revealing the most about the collection's themes and the pontificating protagonist."--Publishers Weekly. The stories mirror each other and the metaphor connecting the stories is music.

Obras completas de Tirso de Molina ÍNDICE: [Biografía] [COMEDIAS DE CAPA Y ESPADA Y PALATINAS [COMEDIAS HISTÓRICAS] [COMEDIAS MITOLÓGICAS] [COMEDIAS RELIGIOSAS Y FILOSÓFICAS] [AUTOS SACRAMENTALES] [OTRAS OBRAS] [POESÍAS] [ROMANCES] [SONETOS]