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Francisco Delicado's Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman describes a community of Spanish Jewish conversos who flee from the Inquisition and settle in Rome, Italy, during the first third of the 16th century. A surprisingly modern novel which uses colloquial street language novel to provide a vivid description of a lower class Roman neighborhood as seen by Spanish immigrants at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The central character is a woman, beautiful, witty, rootless and itinerant, who attempts to live independently in Rome. We learn her story through her dialogues with an...

Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...

El oficial de policía Noah Harper ha decidido que, cueste lo que cueste, encontrará a Alyssa, una niña de siete años que ha sido secuestrada. Pero, para conseguirlo, tendrá que adentrarse por un camino sin retorno. Salvar a la niña no impedirá que Noah pierda su trabajo, que su matrimonio se derrumbe ni que sea expulsado de Acacia Pines. Ha sido advertido de que, si vuelve a aparecerse por su pequeña ciudad natal, pasará el resto de su vida pudriéndose en la cárcel. Hoy, doce años después, Noah recibe una llamada telefónica. Alyssa ha vuelto a desaparecer. Su padre ruega a Noah...

Los mejores relatos del año. He aquí los 37 Relatos para leer cuando estés muerto. ¿Estás listo? Son historias cortas divertidas, dramáticas, fantásticas y algunas envueltas en celofanes de niebla. Además de los 37 relatos incluyo los cuentos de Antigua Vamurta, que enriquecen este mundo extraño y fascinante. He ido ampliando el libro hasta convertir los 37 relatos en 50.