Historias de una becaria incorrecta

La noche del 22 de junio, mientras todo el elitista Instituto Magno celebra la fiesta de fin de curso, Blanca Roca, la profesora de literatura, es abatida de un disparo en la frente. A la mañana siguiente, unos bañistas encuentran su cadáver en la playa. La muerte de Blanca sigue siendo una incógnita cuando, tres meses después, empieza el nuevo curso y Paula Arias llega como sustituta a un pueblo aún conmocionado por la tragedia. Enseguida conocerá a Nuno, profesor de matemáticas y propietario de la controvertida discoteca Faro, que no tardará en descubrir quién es realmente Paula y ...

Horacio vuelve al lugar donde nació e inevitablemente se reencuentra con los fantasmas del amor, la decepción y el abandono. Andrés trata de retener, a través de la escritura, el recuerdo de un deseo físico condenado a la fugacidad. Maia descubre un nuevo mundo gracias a una sensual relación con una mujer mayor, inteligente y llena de misterio. Un músico retirado y una pintora viven el renacer de una antigua pasión. Las cuatro novelas cortas reunidas en Mar fantasma ahondan en la imposibilidad última del amor, la voracidad del deseo y lo ilusorio de la memoria, pero también...

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

Guillermo Rosales was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1946. From a very young age. He was disillusioned with the communist regime in his country which made it impossible for him to publish his volumes of writings, of which he was able to save El juego de la viola. In 1978 he went into exile and settled in Miami, where we wrote Boarding Home, winner of the 1986 Letras de Oro award, and one of the most outstanding novels in recent Cuban history. Suffering from an incurable mental ailment, as well as ghosts from his hostile past and a persistent sense of failure, Guillermo Rosales ended his life on...