Los herederos de Julio Verne

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HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW: The backdrop of Joseph Jay Deiss and Susanna Deiss' delightful historical novel Justa may be familiar to most readers: the city of Herculaneum, doomed to be buried under molten lava at the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavations are ongoing in a small fraction of what was once a sprawling, bustling city, and like similar works at Pompeii, those excavations have yielded tantalizing clues about the lives of the ordinary people who were trapped and killed there two thousand years ago. One such story involves a young woman named Justa whose mother was a freed...

Para lady Francesca de Lyle no había duda: entre los lujos de una mansión inglesa y los peligros del desértico interior de Australia, elegía lo segundo. Estaba enamorada del rudo Grant Cameron y junto a él encontraría todo lo que deseaba y necesitaba. Grant se sentía confuso. Quería a Francesca, pero temía que esta no soportara la dureza del medio y decidiera un día regresar a su mundo privilegiado en Europa. Aunque parecía dispuesta a aprender y demostraba ser valiente, no estaba seguro de si debía arriesgarse a pedirle que fuera su mujer.

Las ediciones anteriores a la 6a de "Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana" no incluían los apartados Boom, Posboom y Posmodernismo, por lo que ésta que ahora presentamos debe considerarse como un nuevo libro y, por lo tanto, debe tratarse como una novedad.