En Sus Pasos

Born from a blog, and so sprinkled with references to real persons and facts, this first novel of Jorge Harmodio is a tale of smoke and mirrors about love and disaffection. Ninety-nine percent of our sentimental relationships fails. Every time we start one we believe that "this is the good one," but as time goes by (days, years), we realize that it was not so, and that we'll have a bad time (hours, years) after walking away from it. If you add to the breakup a deviated nassal septum surgery, an uncontrollable fear to rodents, and an obsession for becoming a novelist, shake it well and spill...

A woman thirsting for independence, overwhelmed by the present she struggled to believe in: through the hard test of exile, Else must discover a new reality and a new life based on more than parties, travels, and love. This story submerges the reader in all the richness of an extraordinary lifestyle and brings to life the era of classical music concerts and Stefan Zweig novels, cabarets and modernist paintings, and Nazism and its terrible laws and prohibitions.

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...

Año 338-323 a.C. Varado en la India ante el enemigo, Alejandro y sus tropas no consiguen prosperar en su avance de la conquista asiática. Este decide entonces contar sus recuerdos a uno de sus hombres y dejar así registro escrito para la posteridad. Comienza entonces el relato de su infancia en Macedonia, cuando ya acompañaba a su padre a ver el entrenamiento de sus ejércitos, educado por Aristóteles, cuando más tarde ya se convertiría él mismo en soldado, luchando bajo el mando de su padre que logró devolver el honor a la tierra de Macedonia, convirtiéndose en un guerrero temido y ...