Enemigos del sistema

«Considerada una de las figuras más fascinantes de una nueva generación de autores latinoamericanos, Boullosa justifica los elogios con la riqueza de su obra» Publishers Weekly En esta segunda recopilación, Carmen Boullosa, una de las voces más importantes de la nueva ficción de América Latina, abandona «la seguridad del jardín de la infancia» -en palabras de Christopher Domínguez Michael- y se interna en el universo de lo imaginario. Un territorio donde la Historia -de la indómita América colonial en Duerme y Son vacas, somos puercos, al Viejo Mundo de La otra mano de Lepanto;...

CEO Dominick LaRocca loves fine food and even finer women. Only, ever since his grandmothers put his photo (not to mention his income and marital status) on the label of the family pasta sauce, he hasn't been able to enjoy either! Now that he's become a wanted man, he needs a bodyguard.

Periodistas, ladrones y policías circulan por esta novela, sin pausa pero con orden, junto a otros problemas de la vida cotidiana: media docena de muertos, estafas millonarias, voladuras sorprendentes... Y la víctima es siempre la misma: el ingenioso Gálvez, periodista que recibe palizas de mafiosos y estafadores...

The road of Sandra Miller’s life is strewn with the corpses of those who loved her or simply got in her way. She was born in a small town in Maine on a stormy night with thunder and lightning sent by the devil himself. She was born to be bad, and yet her evil is hidden well beneath bright green eyes and a sexual presence no man can resist. She focuses on the so-called stronger sex, weaving a web of seduction until she catches her prey, and the road of her life has been strewn with the corpses of those who loved her—and those simply got in her way. She continues on her hellish path, even...