Mossad

Cuando a comienzos de la década de los cuarenta Billy Grenville -heredero de una de las fortunas más importantes de Nueva York- se encuentra por primera vez con la corista Ann Arden, se enamora perdidamente de ella, y para desesperación de su madre, Alice, la indómita matriarca del clan Grenville, decide casarse con ella. Ann intentará por todos los medios borrar las huellas de sus humildes orígenes y ser aceptada por la alta sociedad; toda su ambición se centrará en convertirse en una mujer elegante y mundana. Años más tarde, Billy muere en extrañas circunstancias y todas las...

"Women's infidelity is a complex and deep subject, however throughout history men have given it a very loose meaning. Beyond those macho prejudices, many other things come to play. Who has not been unfaithful at one time, at least mentally? The ambition to have what we do not have and to be what we are not is a big part of human beings, and so is infidelity." Rosa Montero. Texts by Bioy Casares, Marcelo Birmajer, Giovanni Boccacci, Cortázar, Antón Chéjov, Fitzgerald, Mastretta, Guy de Maupassant, Onetti, and more.

Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career? He’s about to lose his grip when he attends a college reunion and there discovers evidence of a past sexual betrayal, one serious enough that it threatens to overpower the present, even as it offers a key to Will’s dangerous obsessions. Hypnotic, beautifully written, this mesmerizing novel by “an extremely gifted writer” (San...

Un volumen de relatos cuyo hilo conductor es la bipolaridad, el desdoblamiento, el contraste, un juego infinito como infinito es el océano de la lengua. Unos relatos en los que el lector se encontrará con presencias sorprendentes: desde el fantasma de Scott Fitzgerald que aletea en el titulado «El pequeño Gatsby» hasta un travesti llamado Giosefine en homenaje a Joséphine Baker.