Al grito de guerra: El Guerrillero

Fuguet está parado todo el tiempo tambaleándose sobre los hombros del mejor Bolaño. Es un gusto verlo bailar así, con su verdad en brazos. FOGWILL

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. As the investigation turns her quiet life inside out, Jean is suddenly given an unexpected chance at friendship, love and - possibly - happiness. But there will, inevitably, be a price to pay.

En esta cuarta antología, la muerte, nuestro símbolo, es obligada a contemplar esa fuerza tempestuosa que es la existencia: mirando desde los huecos oscuros de su cráneo, con la sonrisa forzada por falta de labios, sin impedir el paso del aire por los orificios nasales, al carecer de fosas y manos que puedan cerrar su paso… Hemos elegido “Maíz, trigo y frijol” como título para este ejemplar: El trigo marcó el paso del hombre de cazador a recolector; el maíz era tan importante para nuestras culturas prehispánicas que tenía a Cintéotl, su propia deidad, para custodiarlo; el...

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...