Parábola de la vieja tortuga

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

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...

"Quince años después de la muerte de Evaristo Meneses, célebre comisario de la década del '60. Raul Benavides, un periodista free-lance, debe escribir una nota que trace su perfil y evoque sus hazañas. Así conoce a Erika, una vieja prostituta, hoy madame en un prostíbulo, quien asegura haber sido su eterna amante. Un mítico comisario ya muerto, un periodista desinformado y una anciana prostituta, son los tres personajes claves de esta historia en donde verdad y mentira se confunden sin descanso. Erika elige a Benavides para hablarle de su encendida relación con Meneses, en su relato...

Qué harías si la vida te ofreciese otra oportunidad justo cuando acabas de perderlo todo. Dos ciudades, Nueva York y Tokio, dos hombres de culturas contrapuestas, y el atribulado corazón de una mujer palpitando ante su destino. Predestinados es una novela cuya protagonista relata abiertamente su pasado, hablando sin reservas de amor y pasión, de dolor y pérdida, de amistad y de relaciones familiares, prestando especial atención a la amplia galería de personajes secundarios que la rodean y a la evolución de su concepción de la vida, al ser consciente de que está inevitablemente...