Kiro

A novel in Spanish by Costa Rica novelist Catalina Murillo about the relationship of a freshman college girl coming of age and a fortysomething artisan. Things are not what they appear in this tale of twisted romance, unfulfilled expectations and veiled sadism. Critics consider this a novel of female empowerment, symbolizing the struggle of young women to stand on their own two feet in a male dominated latinamerican society.

El autor juega con las sensaciones de una vida tan cotidiana y simple, que rescata de ella lo singular, donde lo rutinario transciende a la prosopopeya de la vida misma. Desde un tono campestre, realista o cotidiano te lleva a oler lugares lluviosos e íngrimos, o bien, a sucumbir en un día a día acelerado, ruidoso y fugaz con relatos que nos recuerdan, y parecieran insistir con impetuoso coraje, en mundos paralelos, tiempos y espacios alternos que inciden en lo llano de la existencia. A manera de cuento y poesía la obra expone una voz que reside en miles de corajes inalterables, donde las ...

Adoration has a high price Celeste is ancient, beautiful, and deadly. Aided by her servant, Clive, she has lived for over 200 years, drawing her life force from the adoration of others - first in her native country of America and, when forced to flee her home there, in London. Now she has a new target for her affections in Sam. And when she invades his dreams and his life in order to seduce him and feed on his desires, she doesn't reckon on the power of his love for his wife, Marianne, or the terrible price her obsession with him will exact. A terrifying novel from the Shirley Jackson and...

Lope de Vega es el maximo talento dramatico del siglo XVII, pero su fuerza lirica destaca poderosamente, incluso en una epoca poblada de excepcionales valores poeticos. La trayectoria lirica de Lope sigue estrechamente sus vaivenes vitales: de la exaltacion y el desasosiego amoroso al arrepentimiento, del desengano literario al personal. La presente seleccion desarrolla organicamente este movimiento, a traves de las composiciones mas representativas de cada etapa.