Algún día no es un día de la semana

As Ambrose Bierce said, "home is the only place open all night." And in this first novel by David Trueba, the home belongs to the Belitre, a family as numerous as it is absurd. The people who inhabit this book only listen to the voice of their heart, while reason keeps an impassive silence.

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Leaving Cornwall for London to find a bride, a proper, high-born lady willing to bear him an heir, Colin Oliver, Viscount Sutton, is appalled when he finds himself falling for Madame Alexandra Larchmont, a beautiful fortune-teller, especially when they are forced into an uneasy alliance to stop a murder plot.

La obra literaria de Andréiev puede considerarse como una de las manifestaciones culturales más originales y controvertidas de la Rusia de comienzos del siglo XX. Bajo el título de El abismo, uno de los ocho relatos que compone este libro, todos escritos entre 1900 y 1908, volvemos a encontrarnos con esa prosa limpia, llana y plena de misterio que con gran maestría sabe desplegar el autor. Cada uno de sus relatos, sugerentes, cautivantes y de variados matices, nos hacen recorrer los laberintos claroscuros de la condición humana, vitales, por momentos luminosos, aunque esa claridad muchas ...