Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las fuerzas armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar....
I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of...
After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels...
During the air war over Germany, the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress tries to achieve some competence as a unit before their most catastrophic mission yet.
They call their plane “Paper Doll,” the joke being its suggestion of flimsiness,...
Andaba yo por los seis años cuando mi padre decidió que podía prestarme sus libros sin temor a destrozos. Hasta ese momento, mi biblioteca básica se restringía al TBO, Mortadelos variados, y cualquier libro de categoría...
Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly...