Estrella a toda costa

«David Toscana es el más original y disfrutable escritor de su generación.» El Observador Recuerde el alma dormida, avive el seso y despierte, contemplando cómo se pasa la vida, cómo se viene la muerte tan callando; cuán presto se va el plazer, cómo, después de acordado, da dolor; cómo, a nuestro parescer, cualquiera tiempo pasado fue mejor.

Un cuerpo de hombre joven desnudo sobre la arena, y en la piel, un tatuaje: "He nacido para revolucionar el infierno." Nace un enigma y nace un investigador privado, Pepe Carvalho, que a lo largo de la historia descubre la azarosa vida de superviviente de un hombre que tenía buena entrada con las mujeres. La retina de Carvalho le permite descubrir las pistas que conducen a la solución, pero también describir el entorno social y sentimental que ha hecho posible el crimen. Tatuaje, primera novela en la que Carvalho ejerce como investigador privado fue llevada al cine por Bigas Luna.

The poets of old spoke of Seers gifted with waking dreams, of Sentinels, who could take the form of the beasts of the air, and who watched over the sacred lands. Then the age of gifts came to an end. Over a hundred years, Seers and Sentinels became as Legends, stories told to wide-eyed children at night. Annalisia is secretly a seer. A princess with a courageous spirit. And a soft spot for Legends. Jovanni is secretly a legend. A commoner with little patience for pampered royals. On the eve of a royal ball, Anna longs for nothing more than to escape. Her duty, a marriage of alliance with a...

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of...