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Los trabajos reunidos en este libro son versiones más extensas de las exposiciones leídas en el homenaje a Juan José Arreola organizado por El Colegio de México con motivo del gozoso centenario de su nacimiento. Sobre este escritor mexicano, Jorge Luis Borges dijo: “Nació en México en 1918. Pudo haber nacido en cualquier lugar y en cualquier siglo”. Al aludir la ubicuidad de Arreola, Borges implicaba lo que algunos definirían como la universalidad de su literatura. Con ese tono entre irónico y juguetón tan suyo, Arreola describía así su amor por la literatura: “Mis...

ONE MANS ESCAPE INTO HUMANKINDS GREATEST ADVENTURE… NASA astronaut Alex Shaw is past his prime, once a rising star he has in recent years been side-lined by new technology. Now almost irrelevant he is barely holding it together. Then along came JOVE. When life is discovered on Jupiter he is given one last chance to make history when he is chosen to lead the first human mission to the newly-discovered surface of the giant planet. But the expected, measured, scientific exploratory mission that the crew had prepared for collapses on first contact. Nothing could have prepared them for the...

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Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman and Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind locked doors a very different story emerges; as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge of control and jealousy has crept in. The cruelty she experiences at Jack's hands leaves no bruises, no scars, only the wounds of fear, humiliation and isolation. Maddy's journey to healing begins when the President's wife offers her the opportunity to join her newly-formed Commission on Violence against Women. There Maddy ...

Hay vientos que llegan lentamente, o tan de repente que dejan la desolación a la intemperie. Vientos que prometen o te despeinan. Cualquiera sea el viento que te lleve a otros lugares, hay que reconstruirse de nuevo. La vida toda es un viaje: transcurre entre orillas y elecciones. Somos viajeros incesantes, libélulas transmutando, buscando aguas serenas, un aire más tibio, una tierra oportuna donde mecer los sueños. Inmigrantes y refugiados deben transformarse y adaptarse a los nuevos destinos como las libélulas. Para los japoneses ellas simbolizan el equilibrio en la vida, para los...