Salomón

Novela basada en un hecho real del caciquismo. La violencia de un pueblo, Tajimaroa, conducida hasta sus últimos extremos, ha sido captada con procedimientos literarios que hacen de este libro un testimonio a la vez que una obra maestra de la literatura.

Isabel, una mujer que trabaja en la Asociación de Víctimas Dependientes, recibe una propuesta peculiar que va más allá de sus competencias: debe ir a una región de Kenia, Mombasa, para localizar y rescatar a un joven llamado Ezequiel que ha sido abducido por la Orden Humanitaria, una secta que esconde algo turbio. Isabel acepta la misión dispuesta a redimir la culpa que le atosiga desde que su hermano, víctima de otra secta, se suicidó sin que ella pudiera ayudarle. Una vez en Mombasa, a pesar de sentirse embargada por el exotismo que la rodea, Isabel consigue infiltrarse en la orden...

"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her Cousin is Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816), regarded as the official initiator of the novel genre in Spanish America, in "La Quijotita..." Fernandez de Lizardi extends his view on society to encompass the female condition. In tune with his liberal stance the author states with clarity the active role women should play within the new Mexican society, and highlights the importance of educating them along modern principles. Composed mainly of...

Of these four hundred-odd stories there are three or four of which were murmured; to be more truthful, it was not theirs, but me, who was murdered, denying me ownership of the matter. None of those included in this volume have been discussed, as far as I know, in such a concept; But I anticipate, reader, to warn you that three of those that I offer you here are not mine for the matter, and five or six are not the heritage of my inventiveness, but accounts of authentic and real cases -- what Fernán Caballero called happened. I dressed and arranged them in my own way, sometimes for pleasure...