La caricia del vikingo

canto emocionante a la poesía y al amor en sus más contundentes y jocundas expresiones de vitalidad.» Miguel García-Posada, Babelia

When Abigail Foster's family is forced to sell their home in London, a strange lawyer appears with an incredible offer: they can go live in a relative's house that has been abandoned for 16 years. When they arrive at Pembrooke Park, the town's attractive pastor warns them to be careful of the people looking for a rumored treasure hidden in a secret room. In an effort to improve her family's economic situation, Abigail begins to look for the treasure. She receives letters with clues about the room and house's past. Will she find it or love?

This is a Spanish-language edition of The Latin Deli, Judith Ortiz Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. A work rich in longing, love, and remembrance, El deli latino opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as "El Building." The book was selected by Rita Dove, Ashley Montague, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which recognizes work that has made "important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of...

Entre la esperanza y el arrepentimiento cabe un suspiro. Y en ese suspiro pasamos gran parte de nuestra vida. Erri Gargiulo, el nuevo y sorprendente personaje de Lorenzo Marone, vivo, simpático e intenso como el inolvidable Cesare Annunziata de La tentación de ser felices, protagoniza una extraordinaria novela sobre las familias de hoy y cuenta lo mucho que influyen en nuestra vida las personas que nos rodean, tendiendo a moldear nuestro carácter. Hasta el día en que comprendemos que, si no queremos vivir una vida que no es la nuestra, hay que rebelarse contra quien nos quiere... Erri...