Olvidada entre las rocas. 1a parte

«No hay tema literario que sea ajeno a la voracidad de Joyce Carol Oates, a su habilidad narrativa, al ritmo que sabe imprimir a cada relato».-La Vanguardia En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemanianazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad en el interior del Estado de Nueva York. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terribletragediafamiliar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza...

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...

The Mexican War of Independence unfolds through the sixteen-year-old narrator's frank, direct voice. Her vivid descriptions gracefully evoke life in old Mexico.

The saga of Horacio Kustos is formed by a series of tales that blend temporary spaces and fantastic characters; his protagonist, that names the book, is an explorer that travels through time and appears in cities, extraordinary hotels under the sea, the Arctic and other scenarios that you can only visit in your dreams, very close to the proposal of Alberto Chimal.