De vuelta a casa

Una selección de cuentos buenos y breves, tan fugaces como eternos, que se pueden leer en un trayecto corto, en una espera, de una sentada. Una oportunidad para acercarse a joyas desconocidas de grandes autores de la literatura universal. Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, O. Henry, Alexander Afanasiev, Katherine Mansfield... nos acompañan en este viaje.

"El amor, la atracción erótica y la fascinación que sienten Manuel y Verónia por la casi niña adolescente Teresa va más allá del amor. Más aún cuando descubrimos que Teresa es una deficiente mental. La imbricación de esas dos versiones del ser inexplicable y hermético que es Teresa compone esta novela en la que confluyen la embriaguez y el canto con el pánico, la melancolía y la aceptación de la culpa. En el centro, como un ser del silencio, Teresa seguirá intocada e intocable, inmóvil, aun cuando todo se precipite a su alrededor. Andrés Barba ha vuelto a crear unos...

In this bold novel that shatters the barriers between fiction and reality, the dark object of narrator Chris's desire is Dick, a well-known theorist who refuses to answer her letters. Chris tenaciously continues to pursue him nonetheless, eventually traveling across the country. The passion-fueled journey pushes the protagonist to a state of madness that moves her away from a life in the shadow of her successful husband and brings her to question the very foundation of her femininity. Chris's compulsive love letters act as essays, and a moment arrives when the letters are in and of themselves ...

This is a satirical/historical novel of the life of a fictional Soviet era artist, Vladimir Daniilovich Myukis who was orphaned during the Second World War. By the early 1950s, Myukis now in a street gang of war orphans was arrested by the police for vandalism. The vandalism consisted of drawing large pictures of elephants on the bombed out buildings in hisw native city of Novogrudok in what is now Belarus. The arresting officers realized that Myukis had real art ability so they sent him to art school. From there he was recruited into the KGB where he forged signatures for their agents. He...