Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated into English by Lucia Graves.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martín wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter?... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As a writer and critic of hemispheric influence, María Negroni has drawn from sources as diverse as Lautréamont, Pizarnik, and Ridley Scott's Alien to build a model of art as museo negro--repository of the anti-real, the anti-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A mysterious character from the city arrives at a peaceful country village, attracting the interest of Josu, a young adolescent. José Luis, the newly arrived vicar, is the ideal mentor for any rebellious boy with a curious heart... mostrar más
Editorial: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2014
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 209 págs.
ISBN: 9780802121608
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fiancée, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) As the novel opens Pierre is a boy, raised by a wealthy family of Belgian winemakers. Precociously curious about the opposite sex - particularly the intimate garments he finds drying in the laundry room - he is initiated into... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge's The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the professor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The calm of a sleepy Patagonian fishing port has been broken by murder. It's the case of a lifetime for brilliant and headstrong forensic detective Laura Badía. The crime is brutal and baffling. The victim is Julio Ortega, a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The discovery of a South American dictator's rotting corpse in the deserted tangle of his crumbling palace prompts a search through his past and a chronicle of his progression from popular, beloved, unafraid ruler to isolated,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The general is dead. The Patriarch is gone--succumbing finally to an immense old age (some say he was 107 when he died; others claim he was 232). Once he was a popular figure, a man who loved the poor of his sun-drenched... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents the story of a love affair between a Peruvian translator and an adventurous and independent woman, "the bad girl," as it unfolds over the course of forty years, from Lima to London, Paris, Tokyo, and Madrid.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as... mostrar más