La romana indómita

This is the classic story of a doll created by old Gepetto; it talks and laughs and after his adventures becomes a real boy.

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

After the nurse Cristina Esquivel is found strangled in her apartment in Madrid, her parents contract the private detective Arturo Zarco to find the killer. Zarco describes the investigation to her until the struggle between them is suddenly interrupted by the discovery the murdered womans neighbors diary. Soon one story begins to interfere with the other.

¿Es el mejor ajedrecista del mundo un genio? ¿Un trasgo? ¿Un prisionero de sí mismo? Carlos Rua protagonista de este libro te lo dirá. ¿O acaso no? Carlos Rua solo quiere ser gran maestro de ajedrez. Se enfrenta a cualquiera, padres incluidos, que coloquen la mínima piedra en su camino. Su caminar por el intricado mundo de los 64 escaques es duro, pero para él lo verdaderamente duro es no llegar. Las grandezas y la miseria de esos hombres (algunas mujeres también) que viven pensando en defensas sicilianas, aperturas, diagonales, torres, peones, problemas de tiempo, quedan abiertas en ...