Flores y frutas

In this groundbreaking novel from Luc�a Guerra, perceived roles and expectations of women are called into question. Cristina narrates her life, providing readers with a true female perspective rather than showing events through a phallocentric lens. The protagonist discusses taboo topics—including sensuality, menstruation, pregnancy, and abortion—with stark realism, anger, and rebellion, which is in direct contrast to the poetic euphemisms and illusions used in the masculine world that dominated literature at the time. En esta novela revolucionaria de Luc�a Guerra, se ponen en duda...

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

Con La muerte es una vieja historia, Rivera Letelier nos sorprende con un tono y un lenguaje creados para dar vida a una novela policial asombrosa que se desarrolla en el Antofagasta de hoy.

El Rey Felipe II, como gran promotor de la ciencia del Imperio, llama a un joven cosmógrafo, Diego de Granada, para llevar a cabo la confección del mapamundi más exacto posible, en el que todos los lugares aparecieran con sus dos coordenadas geográficas exactamente determinadas, aplicando para el difícil cálculo de la longitud un método ideado por el granadino con ayuda de Uchur, una ex-amante del rey, y basado en la idea de que la Tierra es un enorme imán. Para asegurar su validez, Felipe II le encomienda un viaje alrededor del mundo que durará veintisiete largos años. Un...