Trampa de cazadores

En la víspera del solsticio de verano, una mujer es brutalmente asesinada; la autopsia revelará que ha sufrido crueles torturas y que no queda una gota de sangre en sus venas. Un comisario de la Policía Vasca (Ertzaintza), apodado 'la araña' por la tupida red de sus contactos, sufre un atentado al salir de su domicilio. Estos dos hechos, aparentemente inconexos, marcan el apasionante arranque de 'El sanador de miedos', siguiendo dos tramas paralelas cuyo interés no decaerá hasta el último capítulo.

Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...

Until recently, Zvi was a happily married seventy-year-old engineer with no worrisome ailments beyond those of age. His road projects connected one place to another and opened tunnels of light deep in the mountains. But lately he forgets some names. A visit to the neurologist confirms it: first signs of his decline. Zvi, encouraged by his wife and the specialist, will not give up. His latest work will reveal to you one of the advantages of aging: with memory loss, it increases our ability to understand complex ideas, what is hidden under the surface of all things. From the wonderful pen of...

"El peregrino en su patria" representa un hito en la evolución de un género que estaba obligado a una metamorfosis. A partir de Lope se puede hablar de una nueva etapa, pues la adaptación a los gustos españoles y el refuerzo del mensaje religioso supondrán el epicentro de la llamada novela bizantina barroca o de peregrinos, comenzando así un período de esplendor para el género.