Tú sin frenos y yo con tantas curvas

This overwhelming novel, which enshrines Rita Indiana as narrator, contains many layers and fascinating twists that eludes all synthesis. The story begins in the apartment of saint and advisor to the Dominican President, Esther Escudero, better known as Omicunle. His young maid, Alcide Figueroa, whom Esther helped leave a life of prostitution thanks to the collaboration of Eric Vitier, is about to become plagued by the past, present and future that seems dizzying and nearly impossible at times. Including deities that inhabit the Caribbean Sea, political interests, Goya s prints, gender...

La reputación de Abraham Lincoln se basa en haber salvado a su país de los estragos de la secesión y en la abolición de la esclavitud. Pero su heroica lucha contra las fuerzas del mal, contra los vampiros, los «no muertos», ha permanecido oculta durante cientos de años. Hasta que Seth Grahame-Smith, célebre coautor de Orgullo y prejuicio y zombis, descubrió el Diario secreto de Abraham Lincoln. Usando ese asombroso documento como guía, Grahame-Smith ha reconstruido la verdadera historia del prócer estadounidense, revelando los temibles secretos tras la Guerra Civil y arrojando luz...

Set in the French Belle Époque, this novel is a masterpiece of fin-de-siècle aesthetics. The affable and talkative Monsieur de Bougrelon is a French expatriate living in Amsterdam, an old dandy who lies forgotten in the midst of a century defined by luxury and vices. Having become a mere puppet taking refuge among ghosts, he encourages two French travelers to stay in Amsterdam, serving as their tour guide to the foggy city and revealing to them a completely different reality than might first be apparent. Con la Belle Époque francesa de trasfondo, esta novela es una obra magistral de la...

In the wake of a series of murders linked only by postcards announcing the victims' imminent deaths, a once-legendary and alcoholic FBI profiler discovers bizarre links to the case, an eighth-century abandoned child, and a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a secret medieval society.