Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns to cope with the mundane rituals of life in a Florida retirement community,...
“All he has to do is bypass the gatekeeper of the thrice-tenth kingdom and bring me a fern flower, a dragon’s heart, and a rusałka’s lock of hair. Easy.”
On the outskirts of a quiet Canadian town, in a cabin...
Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new — new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in...
Ágil y sutil pero profunda, brillante y divertida, Muerte entre poetas es un auténtico logro narrativo que encandilará a los lectores. Una historia deliciosa que hace un guiño a las viejas novelas de Agatha Christie y a las...
La historia satírica del ascenso y caída de un dictador sudamericano sirve a Francisco Ayala para analizar distintos problemas morales. El autor, con un lenguaje preciso, convierte su preocupación por la degradación humana en una...