Con sabor a tango

Jovel, serenata a la gente menuda is an essential novel in the literary canon of Chiapas, Mexico; not only for belonging to the historic novel genre, but also by bringing out important identity traits for the Chiapas population. The strategies for the composition of this fictional world follow very closely historical documents to relate the circumstances at the departure from the Iberian Peninsula in the XVI century of the Spanish group that colonized, founded and established itself in Ciudad Real de Chiapas (current San Cristobal de las Casas), as well as diverse circumstances of the...

A lo largo de la obra de Alejo Carpentier se formula toda una teoría de lo que ha de ser la novela latinoamericana en la actual etapa de su evolución, y al mismo tiempo se realiza una novelística que en todo responde a esa formulación teórica.

Que la venjança és un plat que se serveix en plat fred, és del domini de tothom. I en aquesta novel·la, aquest fet es farà palès des d’un bon principi. Dos empresaris, dues trajectòries oposades i un únic objectiu. Dues empreses enfrontades per una voraç competència. I un lladre. Suborns, tràfic d’influències i alts càrrecs implicats. Una línia molt prima i molt feble, capaç de trencar-se en qualsevol moment i fer passar a qualsevol persona de la mediocritat a l’opulència o de la riquesa a la misèria. Una història de venjances ambientada principalment a Girona on...

The Wyoming Project is a story with a most intriguing cast of characters: Bad Elvis, Pirate, Smoke, Hippie, Zoomer, Mia, Starlet, and the middle-aged, eccentric, and perhaps crazed institution icon, Uncle Rich. This wonderfully witty tall tale illuminates the paths of their lives lived, living, and to be lived with all roads leading to The Macadamia Ranch, Wind River, Wyoming. Invoking sandlot rules from days gone by, Uncle Rich issues a writ to his closest friends, The Electric Seven, requesting a most vital formal gathering. “Busy busy bees are my friends. Ah, but they have lives to live. ...