Nunca te amaré

Varias generaciones de dos familias -caciques y parias de la tierra- se entrecruzan en la peripecia de una esclava, símbolo de la libertad, y en sus viajes entre España y América en este siglo, que darán fruto en el mestizaje de " La consagración de la primavera " y " Bajo el volcán " , el híbrido intertextual de un Carpentier apócrifo cruzado con Lowry y una parodia -homenaje inverso- de la gran literatura

La vida de Julius Winsome, en una remota cabaña de los bosques de Maine, ha acabado pareciéndose al paisaje que lo rodea: silencioso, lejos de todo, aislado, inescrutable. Pero cuando su perro, Hobbes, muere a manos de un cazador, en un descuido o en un acto de crueldad, la vida de Julius, ya en la cincuentena, da un vuelco. Precisamente, Hobbes es lo único que le queda de un antiguo y fugaz amor. En adelante tendrá por toda compañía el rifle que heredó de su padre y éste, a su vez, de su abuelo, que luchó durante la primera guerra mundial, y los innumerables libros que cubren las...

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they...