Lágrimas en el Cielo

Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have been inseparable since childhood. Ben's wife Serena likes to jokingly refer to Martin as Ben's dutiful Little Shadow. Lucy is a devoted wife to Martin, even though she knows she'll always be second best to his sacred friendship. When Ben throws a lavish 40th birthday party as his new palatial country home, Martin and Lucy attend, mixing with the very upper echelons of London society. But why, the next morning, is Martin in a police station being interviewed about...

Francisco Delicado's Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman describes a community of Spanish Jewish conversos who flee from the Inquisition and settle in Rome, Italy, during the first third of the 16th century. A surprisingly modern novel which uses colloquial street language novel to provide a vivid description of a lower class Roman neighborhood as seen by Spanish immigrants at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The central character is a woman, beautiful, witty, rootless and itinerant, who attempts to live independently in Rome. We learn her story through her dialogues with an...

Úrsula acaba de mudarse a casa de su amiga Clara en un edificio nuevo. Tiene un pasado algo complicado que aún le está dando problemas, pero mira adelante con optimismo. Santi vive en el mismo edificio y arrastra un pasado extremadamente complicado que no le deja pasar página y, a consecuencia del cual, todo el mundo le evita. Aparentemente, ambos no tienen nada en común y ni siquiera deberían empezar a hablar, pero...

«El único libro sobre jazz que le recomendaría a mis amigos.» Keith Jarrett Pero hermoso es un libro de jazz. Ocho historias imaginadas que recogen anécdotas de las vidas de Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus, Chet Baker, Ben Webster, Thelonius Monk y Art Pepper, todas ellas hilvanadas por el relato (imaginado también) de un viaje en coche que Duke Ellington y Harry Carney realizan en una de sus giras por Estados Unidos. Inspirándose en fotografías y textos sobre los músicos, Geoff Dyer compone estas variaciones sobre episodios muy conocidos de las vidas de las ocho leyendas...