Amor en Venecia

Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

Latino Book Award 2005 - Mejor Novela Romántica (Best Romance Novel) This remarkable novel exists as one of the most accurate narrative descriptions of rural violence in Colombia. The weight of events and the inherent state of war that seems to irremediably condemn human beings are the back drop to a sensitive account of the death of Julián, a popular activist murdered during a peasant demonstration. This event triggers an expansion of violence that transgresses society's every law—from media infiltration in the form of censorship to the irreparable consequences of ruthless crossfire in...

Carmela: el lector será incapaz de juzgarla ante una realidad apabullante. Carmela, casada y con dos hijas vive una vida sin grandes problemas. De un momento a otro su marido pierde el trabajo y todo cambia. Su familia la apoya, ella sale a vender a la calle pero es insuficiente. Desesperada conoce a Persi, un hombre que la recluta a vender mariguana. No tiene ambiciones de riqueza, solo quiere recuperar lo que la crisis le arrebató y su marido no logra darle. Carmela se adapta a las circunstancias y pese a todo puede disfrutar de la vida al lado de sus hijas. Todos los cuestionamientos que ...

“I’m not leaving you.” He made a promise to protect her. Back in her hometown, Tori James never expects to spend time with her ex-fiancé—until someone blows up her car. Now she has a target on her back, and accepting Staff Sergeant Cade McMann as her bodyguard is her only hope of staying alive. But even as Cade and Tori are drawn back together, a killer is determined to tear them apart for good.