Diabolus in Anima «El desolado»

El juguete rabioso es la primera novela de Roberto Arlt, una obra en la que se narra en cuatro episodios la lucha del adolescente Silvio Astier para escapar de la miseria y la humillación en las que vive. Siguiendo el modelo de la novela picaresca, el héroe –o mejor dicho, antihéroe– trata de conseguir un destino mejor, pero solo obtiene fracasos, moviéndose en un mundo repleto de personajes hostiles y desesperados que Astier soporta con resignación: “Ya no tengo ni encuentro palabras con las que pedir misericordia. Baldía y fea como una rodilla desnuda es mi alma”. Las...

“[Lehane has] emerged from the whodunit ghetto as a broader and more substantial talent....When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.” —New York Times Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption—the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone—Moonlight Mile returns Lehane’s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the ...

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets. Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived—but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie Lockwood spent a year in prison for the acts that led...

En los dos mil años de literatura occidental no se había escrito otro libro como ese Lazarillo [...], porque ninguno había tratado nunca antes a un personaje de la pobre categoría de Lázaro con una atención [...] tan limpiamente centrada en la materialidad y en las minucias de la existencia.