Un Camino Inesperado

«Con todos estos ingredientes (una época agobiante, un paisaje rústico y sombrío, unos protagonistas de singular idiosincrasia, una historia de pasiones violentas y amores imposibles) lo más sensato habría sido renunciar. Pero naturalmente, el riesgo me atrajo.» Eduardo Mendoza Mendoza narra el conflicto en el que se ve envuelta sor Consuelo, una monja que administra un ruinoso hospital. Para conseguir la financiación, se dirige al cacique de San Ubaldo de Bassora, aunque todo empieza a complicarse cuando éste la seduce. La invención expresiva constante de Mendoza y su inigualada...

Un fresco medieval, meticulosamente documentado, con la intolerancia religiosa como telón de fondo y una apasionante historia de amor.

A bright but naïve young woman marries an egotistical man of letters. The war separates them, and Alaine spends months in turmoil, first imprisoned by the Germans, then a victim of the Russians. Her husband is presumed dead, but she presses on in this autobiographical novel about men's violence against women. And yet there's beauty in these pages, and words of hope amid the worst suffering. Una mujer en el frente was first published in 1991, in the midst of Russia's political transition, and broke the decades-long silence about the wartime injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of...

The modern fall and genesis of the sons of the present system. The lost Eve rejected Adam when they were twenty-three years old; and now, ten years later, Adam is rich and with rich dreams full of idealism, bigger than his house and his need to regain Eve and an ideal. Another man is invited to the party in Bello Mar, and people adore him. He is one of the leaders of a political party. The fall of the modernity; with no possibility to return to the old ideal of a paradise? The madness and decline of modern times and modern men and women, with a luxurious and ruthless style. A novella that you ...