Genoma pandémico

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....

The tragedy unfolds when both of Alicias parents pass away in a horrible accident. However, Alicia survives and is later adopted by her godmother from the Church. Alicias godmother enrolls her in a dual-language program in New York. She does well academically, but struggles with deep emotional feelings of hurt and despair when Mothers Day is celebrated towards the end of every school year. She cries and refuses to participate in any Mothers Day activities. One summer evening, when she was on vacation with Miss Runfo, she falls asleep and dreams about being taken to a faraway place called La...

No podía evitar que aquel hombre la volviera loca. Cuando Kate Brodie heredó por sorpresa la mitad de un viejo rancho en Australia no esperaba tener que lidiar con el vaquero que la enamoró nueve años antes... y la rechazó. Noah Carmody no necesitaba tener junto a él a una chica de ciudad como Kate, pero ella era la única persona que podía ayudarlo a conservar el rancho Radnor. De modo que, a regañadientes, le enseñó cómo mover el ganado. Mientras trabajaban juntos bajo el ardiente sol del desierto australiano, el romance hubiera debido ser lo último que tuviesen en mente... ¿o...

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho ...