Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope's love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American...
Era una ciudad sorprendente que, como un ser prehistórico, parecía haber surgido bruscamente en el valle en una noche de invierno para escalar penosamente la falda de la montaña. Todo en ella era viejo y pétreo, desde las calles...
Era una ciudad sorprendente que, como un ser prehistórico, parecía haber surgido bruscamente en el valle en una noche de invierno para escalar penosamente la falda de la montaña. Todo en ella era viejo y pétreo, desde las calles...
Crónica de una muerte anunciada, novela corta publicada en 1981, es una de Las obras más conocidas y apreciadas de García Márquez. Relata en forma de reconstrucción casi periodística el asesinato de Santiago Nasar a...
Premio Editorial Planeta
Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Editorial Planeta 1984, concedido por el siguiente, jurado: Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera, José Manuel Lara, Antonio Prieto, Carlos Pujol y José María Valverde.
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Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now. In this new novel Grass [examines a subject that has long been taboo — the suffering of Germans during World War II.
It is the story of the sinking of the Wilhelm...
Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country-town life, a gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster...
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon… He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose....
This powerful and often terrifying novel, the fruit of J. G. Ballard's obsession with the motor-car, will shock and disturb many readers. Few products of modern technology excite as much fascination and interest as the automobile, but each year...