La Casa

El trepidante relato sobre la investigación periodística de un crimen de estado perpetrado por la dictadura portuguesa, en 1965 en la frontera que delimita el Guadiana. NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO L'H CONFIDENCIAL DE NOVELA NEGRA 2020

Esta antologa̕ incluye un relato inďito, el magistral "La ganga", escrito en 1950 y, para el lector en lengua espaǫla, cinco cuentos que no se haba̕n traducido: "Las paredes estǹ fra̕s", una velada nebulosa entre marineros y mercenarias; "Un visn̤ propio", historia de apariencias y desencanto; "La forma de las cosas", un viaje en tren donde se descubre, con patetismo contenido, un drama bľico; "La leyenda de Preacher", donde ternura y penetracin̤ sirven de contrapunto a las obsesiones y los miedos de un viejo pobre y solitario; y, por l︢timo, "En los umbrales del paras̕o", que...

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...

This is about the life of Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter and the baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, this is the begining of the real Candide's life.