Los Buddenbrooks sudamericanos

Inscribed in the rich fantastical tradition of Romanian literature while communing with other traditions, this book uses fantasy to denounce, in a covert manner, the grotesqueness of existence within a totalitarian state. The four stories included belong as much to fantastical literature as they do to testimony writing, the narrative combining as it does the confessional tone of a realistic journal with incursions from a visionary imagination. Rediscovered in 1977 after having been rejected by Romanian censorship due to its antisocial tendencies, this was the first book of short stories...

La Toscana se ha convertido en sinónimo de la vida ideal. Pero no ha sido por casualidad. Desde los etruscos, los toscanos han perfeccionado una cultura de la simplicidad, la belleza, la amistad, el buen comer y el amor a la vida cotidiana. Ferenc Máté ha vivido en la región durante más de veinte años. A través de su experiencia personal y divertidas anécdotas, explora el origen de esta existencia idílica, que le ha proporcionado estabilidad económica, seguridad física y emocional y un feliz sentimiento de pertenencia. Desde los huertos de productos orgánicos a la sabrosa cocina,...

An annotated cosmology of Anne Rice's Vampiredom from A(kasha) to Z(enobia)--all fifteen books of the Vampire Chronicles detailed, by a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar; the who, what, where, why, (and often) how of her beloved characters, mortal and 'im', brought together in a book for the first time. Illustrated by Mark Edward Geyer. An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles gathers together, from all fifteen of the books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual...

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...