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When Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' first novel was published last year, it caused a sensation. Readers flocked to the story of six friends in Boston because both the voice and the characters Valdes-Rodriguez created were utterly fresh. A brand new, large, and eager audience came out for a book they felt had been created just for them-young American women whose Hispanic side had been overlooked by commercial novels until The Dirty Girls Social Club. In Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' delicious new novel-each a Latina in her late 20's -take Los Angeles by storm in Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez' delicious new novel. ...

Las verdaderas historias de amor suelen terminar mal (al menos en la literatura). Sentada en su verde limón se desarrolla en una Cuba que intenta emerger del llamado período especial, quizás por ello tenga tanto de conjuro, de intento de exorcizar los fantasmas que acechan al hombre y la mujer contemporáneos. Es necesario tener un caos adentro para engendrar una estrella danzarina, dijo Nietzsche alguna vez. Kirenia, Harris y Ricardo, los tres protagonistas de la novela intentan mantenerse al límite como único modo de no caer en el abismo. La música, el sexo y las drogas son los tres...

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a ‘detective consultant’ in London in the late nineteenth century, known for his intelligence and his skillful use of observation and deductive reasoning to solve difficult cases. This type of investigator, known for his extreme intelligence, influenced the majority of later detective fiction. He is the creator of his own profession ‘detective consultant,’ which consists of helping clarify the particularly difficult cases to the official detectives of Scotland Yard, or private detectives, like is the...

Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward, pausing and then starting unexpectedly. This third volume of My Struggle has a narration that goes in many directions with spasmodic accuracy that becomes a spectacular exercise of autobiographical realty. Boyhood Island is the Tromøy Island of 1969, where an eight-month Karl Ove arrives.