El secreto adamantino

El tesón será su rasgo más importante. En la lucha por la vida, la consecución de un fin: salir de la pobreza y lograr su propio taller de restauración de libros antiguos y encuadernación. En esa búsqueda de un ideal, satisfará sus ideales morales y materiales. Inmerso en una sociedad quebrada, siente la necesidad de participar en la reconstrucción de ese mundo que le rodea y que ve desmoronarse posteriormente a sus pies. Cree firmemente en el ideario del recién estrenado partido político del pueblo y para el pueblo y se une a ellos. El desprecio ante la vida que le ha tocado...

Casado con Diego Rivera y Jorge Cuesta, un poeta y el crítico, Lupe Mari'n se sumergen con el trabajo de Frida Kahlo, Javier Villarurutia, y otros artistas famosos a lo largo de los años 1900. Biblioteca breve (Seix Barral) serie, México.

Portraying the discontinuity of the streets of Barcelona, of time, and, above all, of the existence of each one of its inhabitants, this noir novel turns the everyday into something epic. Five chapters contain five independent stories with characters that speak for themselves yet share the same tone, and the Gracia neighborhood serves as the main line that connects them. The plot revolves around a man named José García, who is killed by his own son, also named José García. The event is witnessed by a neighbor who bears the same name and is reminded of another murder he had seen years...

Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...