El poder del óvalo de oro

La había elegido por trabajo... pero iba a seducirla por placer Nick Papaeliou siempre salía con mujeres despampanantes, por eso era un completo misterio que se sintiese atraído por la desaliñada Rose. Quizá le atraía porque no había caído rendida a sus pies. Rose detestaba a su arrogante jefe, pero necesitaba aquel trabajo. Entonces él se empeñó en seducirla y Rose empezó a sentir que le flaqueaban las fuerzas. No dejaba de recordarse que, en cuanto hubiese conseguido sus propósitos, la abandonaría. Pero Nick iba a llevarse una buena sorpresa porque bajo aquella ropa sin...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

Humorous dialogue cannot disguise the disorientation of continually pulling up roots and starting all over again, in this mosaic-like novel

Taking his title from the name of an extinct giant armadillo-like mammal whose fossils are still found in parts of South America, an iconoclastic Argentine-born poet and writer offers a Dadaistic look at humankind through the dialog between the books on the shelves of a library as they await to be selected and read by the next patron.