Cuatro novias

In this utterly gripping thriller, Sarah, the fearless heroine of indie bestseller Orphan Monster Spy, hunts a rogue German doctor in Central Africa who might be a serial murderer. It's 1940, and Sarah Goldstein is hiding in plain sight as Ursula Haller, the Shirley Temple of Nazi high society. She helps the resistance by spying on Nazi generals at cocktail parties in Berlin, but she yearns to do more. Then the spy she works for, the Captain, gets word of a German doctor who's gone rogue in Central Africa. Rumors say the doctor is experimenting with a weapon of germ warfare so deadly it could ...

A sus veintiocho anos, Penelope se ha resignado ya a convertirse en una solterona destinada a envejecer cuidando a su madre. Durante una decada, ha asistido a todas las fiestas de la aristocracia londinense, y siempre ha sido la muchacha mediocre, callada

¿Qué hace Nora cuando se aventura fuera de la Casa de muñecas de Henrik Ibsen? Hace compras, visita amistades y cumple puntual con su cita fija con aquel cuya existencia misma le atormenta: Krogstad, el empleado de baja ralea que alguna vez le facilitara los medios para salvar a su marido moribundo. La dramaturga mexicana Ximena Escalante dedica su más reciente ejercicio metateatral a imaginar los tortuosos lazos que unen y separan a estos dos personajes: odio, dinero, rencor de clase, sexo y acaso amor son los ingredientes de esta relectura de la obra que diera origen no sólo al teatro...

It was a time of tense emotion. Each was a surge with an almost uncontrollable excitement as the two men moved up the whole length of the riffled sluice. Neither uttered one single word. But they moved slowly on either side of the long, primitive, box-like construction, keeping pace, each with the other, as though in a mutual desire that such fortune as was theirs should be witnessed together, as though neither had courage to face alone the possibilities of this their first serious "washing." At each riffle the men paused. The more emotional of the two, Len Stern, thrust out a hand and...