Reinventando Mis Esperanzas

Carmen sits alone with her late husband, Mario, for the last time and looks back on their marriage and years together.

La protagonista de esta historia no entiende a sus dos hermanas mayores, que la tratan como si fuera una perfecta nulidad; ni a su madre, una señora propensa a las conductas explosivas; ni a su hermano pequeño, que vive abismado en las honduras de sí mismo. La gran incógnita, sin embargo, es su padre, una eminencia perseguida por quienes buscan consejo, un abogado ilustre que cultiva los trances extáticos y visita oscuras regiones del espíritu. De modo que a nuestra heroína sólo le queda la triste alternativa de pasear su desconcierto durante largas horas de bicicleta.

Defeated in their endeavors to create a financial network for global criminals and by the murder of their godfather, El Paisano and Lizzy Zubiaga return to crime world, now to sell pieces of art. The discovery of Siqueiros easels lost for almost eighty years is the beginning of a fruitful business for the former cartel leader, Constance. Everything is hunky-dory until his archenemy, Detective Andrea Mijangos, appears and is ready to destroy the business.

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is ...