Persecución mortal

"Se reúnen varias obras de la autora, en su mayoría breves, en los que, con el lenguaje poético y metafórico que caracteriza la escritura de la autora, se plantean temas de carácter universal, pero sin perder de vista la realidad argentina. La casa sin sosiego es un libreto para ópera de cámara"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Fulbert is fully happy, the system provides him “a charming life”. However, real life continues there, stalking, inescapable, and nothing can avoid the unforeseen circumstances of fate. Through twelve stories, Alicia Fenieux invites us to visit a future where real life coexists with fictitious realities as well as holograms and avatars do so with humans of flesh and blood; a world where the longing for the past is as strong as the fascination that arouse science and technology. It is the daily life of the years to come with its intimate, disconcerting and also ferocious dilemmas; a future ...

Una tórrida mañana de julio en el centro de Madrid. Nuestro protagonista, un médico que ha derivado en homeópata arruinado, recibe la llamada de su exmujer, que le hace una propuesta surrealista: perdonarle los meses de pensión de alimentos que le debe, por la custodia del hijo que tienen en común, a cambio de que aloje en su casa a su único hermano: un químico genial que arrastra una larga depresión y que ha encontrado consuelo en las novelas de Conan Doyle. Hasta tal punto se ha obsesionado con el personaje que ha dado en pensar que es la encarnación del verdadero Sherlock Holmes, ...

Stella, adopted at birth, moves from England to Canada following the death of her adoptive parents and the discovery that her live-in boyfriend is gay. On the plane to Toronto she meets Madeleine, whose offer of help to this young and naïve stranger ushers in a remarkable series of events for both women—almost all of which, it transpires, revolve around a woman they do not know they share a deep connection to: Iris Parker. Intertwining the family sagas of each of its main characters, Uncovering Iris lifts the lid on each of their lives and the circumstances that have shaped them. Spanning...