Aquello era el cielo

When she rescues a teenage hustler from poverty, abuse, and drug addiction Martha Divine transforms him into the diva Sirena Selena, whose beauty and remarkable singing voice will be her ticket to fame and fortune.

"Este volumen reune dos muestras mas de la fecunda y feliz colaboracion entre Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Parodia dentro de la parodia, UN MODELO PARA LA MUERTE lleva, sin embargo, los recursos y los personajes de esta obra al ultimo extremo de la hilaridad."

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

Ángeles del abismo cuenta la historia de un grupo de jóvenes que, en el momento más determinante de su iniciación al amor, son incitados a descender al infierno de la mano de un seductor que funde y confunde ;en sus dos personalidades profundamente conjugadas; la belleza de las ideas elevadas y la urgencia de un deseo que busca satisfacerse en el sometimiento y la descomposición inmediata de los sueños. Novela llena de belleza plástica y profundidad psicológica, Ángeles del abismo es a la vez el testimonio de un narrador que percibe la crueldad flotante que acompaña al acto mismo de ...