Cuentos de Seres Inanimados

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.

Dan regresa a Manila recordando su amor por Lin Lin, una chica de bar, lo mismo para Raúl, el informante de la policía, y las sombras de Mabini. El rostro de Lin Lin consta de una masa de cicatrices y su vergüenza la mantiene alejada de su viejo amante. Él todavía no puede amarla. ¿O sí? Raúl quiere alertar a la policía, pero las sombras de Mabini están en camino para cobrar su venganza. Dan no buscaba una mujer para pasar la noche la primera vez que conoció a Lin Lin en una acera abarrotada en el famoso distrito de bares de Mabini. Se enamora de Lin Lin al momento en el que la...

A marine serving as a cook rebels against his sadness and disillusionment on a night in which time warps his travels and perceptions beyond recognition. Over the course of the transformative evening, he reclaims personal passion and pleasure in the face of the hostility around him.

Antonio Altarriba was one of the finalist at XVIII Award La Sonrisa Vertical with his work: Interwoven Bodies. He offers us now four juicy stories in which reveals the hidden life of some fictional characters, that unconfessed intimacy the authors never tell. So Penelope, Scheherazade, Victor Frankenstein and Alice come to life and venture into erotic relations that take the reader to ancient Greece, to the East, Victorian England, to explore ancient myths and stories with a new look, undoubtedly much more sensual, and explore the relationship between wisdom and beauty, between eroticism and...