Mauro, yo soy tu madre

Pynch Lake is quiet nine months of the year but bursts into life each summer when the vacationers arrive. In the summer of 1965, year-round residents Harold and Peg Wahl find the world that once belonged to them is now being taken over by their older daughters, returned from college for the summer. Cool and self-possessed Rosamund is receiving the attention of the family friend who formerly courted Peg. Martie is filling the house with parties and houseguests of her own. No one in the family is paying much attention to the precocious thirteen-year-old Franny, who sets out to find a life of...

Gracias a la investigación llevada a cabo por el periodista y reportero Jon Lee Anderson, colaborador del New Yorker, nos acercamos de nuevo a la fascinante figura de Ernesto «Che» Guevara, tan publicitada como, en parte, desconocida: un luchador revolucionario, estratega militar, filósofo social, economista, médico, y amigo y confidente de Fidel Castro. Una vida revolucionaria que arrastra al lector desde las capitales revolucionarias de La Habana y Argel hasta los campos de batalla de Bolivia y el Congo; de los corredores del poder de Moscú y Washington hasta el exilio en el puerto de ...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...

«Matar no es tan extremo ni tan difícil e injusto si se sabe a quién.» Tras la aclamada Berta Isla , llega la nueva y esperada novela de Javier Marías. Una intriga absorbente que explora el envés del «No matarás». «Yo fui educado a la antigua, y nunca creí que me fueran a ordenar un día que matara a una mujer. A las mujeres no se las toca, no se les pega, no se les hace daño#» Dos hombres, uno en la ficción y otro en la realidad, tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a Hitler antes de que éste desencadenara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de este hecho, Javier Marías explora...