Ariza

Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep...

Por primera vez en un único volumen, esta edición definitiva de los Cuentos completos de Roald Dahl incluye algunos relatos inéditos en español.

1531: Atahualpa se presenta en la España del emperador Carlos V para encontrarse con la Inquisición y el milagro de la imprenta, pero también con una monarquía exhausta por las constantes guerras, la amenaza permanente de los infieles y lo que es aún más preocupante, con pueblos a los que el hambre puede llevar al límite de la revuelta. En pocas palabras: los aliados que Atahualpa necesita para construir su imperio. Instructiva y fascinante, Civilizaciones es el fruto de la exquisita erudición del autor y de una imaginación desbordante: un ejercicio de audacia narrativa que contiene...

Unlike her two sisters, Lucy was happier at home—if only she could find Mr. Right to share it with! But when she had almost given up her search for such a man, the eminent pediatrician William Thurloe came into her life. Attractive and dynamic, he was the answer to her dreams. But why would he be interested in her when the glamorous Fiona made it clear she was also available? Originally published in 1991.