El ruido de una época

Novela basada en un hecho real del caciquismo. La violencia de un pueblo, Tajimaroa, conducida hasta sus últimos extremos, ha sido captada con procedimientos literarios que hacen de este libro un testimonio a la vez que una obra maestra de la literatura.

Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game. Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: his former boss and the beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree. Now there's a killer on the loose, a long list of possible suspects, a city in panic, and nobody in charge...

Esquilo (Eleusis ca. 525 a.C.-Gela [Sicilia] 456/455 a.C.) encabeza la tríada de grandes poetas trágicos, y a él se debe la configuración de la tragedia tal como ha llegado hasta nosotros. En su dimensión marcadamente teológica, Esquilo hace de la justicia divina el núcleo de su pensamiento y es ese carácter ético de las relaciones entre los seres humanos, o entre éstos y la divinidad, el que expone magistralmente en las tragedias recogidas en el presente volumen: Persas se estructura alrededor del castigo infligido por la divinidad a Jerjes; en Siete contra Tebas se dirime tanto el ...

This classic novel about the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and dominance of the Rio Grande Valley is available for the first time in Spanish. Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so...