El sol verde

In an isolated English boarding school, Irene experiences an unhappy love affair that leads to a myriad of emotions. Then a mysterious and seductive teacher proposes they study "the grammar of love" together. Irene slowly learns to live, and to love. While she falls for her teacher, an unexpected suitor fights for her affection. Irene is torn in a tempest of feelings, unspeakable adventures, and books that leave a mark on her soul.

In a tourist trap of an Irish seaside town famed for involvement with selkies in the past, three sisters are faced with the sudden disappearance of their mother. To make matters worse, there are rumors in the village that their mother herself is a selkie who has now shed her human form and gone back to sea.

Eight months ago, Gray Langtry's mother became prime minister, now someone wants her dead... Gray's life has been in turmoil ever since her mother was chosen to lead the country. First, they had to leave their home and move into the prime minister's official residence at Number 10 Downing Street. Now, everywhere she goes, she must be accompanied by bodyguards. Worst of all, the media won't leave her alone -- she's in every tabloid, and her behavior, her appearance, the length of her skirts... everything is judged. The scars from her parents' divorce and her mother's abrupt remarriage are...

Esta brillante novela de Cristian Acevedo cuya trama de western se despliega no en el Far West yanqui sino en una esquina marginal del conurbano bonaerense, fue finalista del Premio Clarín de Novela 2018. "La Ley primera. Western vol.1 -declara Nicolás Correa en el prólogo- (...) no es solo inolvidable por su argumento, también lo es por sus vívidos y humanos protagonistas. (...) Acevedo es astuto y revive un género mítico y arcaico ya: el western. Y lo instala en una villa, en el margen, y no solo lo instala en el margen, sino que se sirve de la vasta tradición nacional: el duelo"....