El desmadre de ser madre

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).

Cuando Ana Gutiérrez recibe su primer beso de amor no imagina que será el inicio de la trampa infranqueable en que se convierte su vida. Tras una brutal agresión por parte de su ex marido, Ana pasará algunos años en estado de coma, con la única compañia de su madre y su hija.

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...

Evelyn Peterson ha trabajado durante cuatro años para Editorial Brooks, una empresa muy importante y de renombre, William decide tomar su jubilación después del ascenso de Evelyn, pero hay un ligero cambio de planes, Jack Brooks, el hijo menor de William, regresa a la ciudad para tomar el lugar de su padre, pero detrás de aquel cambio hay un verdadero motivo. Evelyn y Jack comienzan a tener roces que se vuelven una declaración de guerra dentro de la editorial, pero, cuando menos lo piensan, cruzan esa línea jefe-empleada, llevándolos a situaciones que se salen de sus manos al mismo...