La danza de los deseos

Although first published in 1891, this ghost story remains a classic of Wildean wit and Victorian sentimentality. True, some of the references to melodrama and nineteenth-century Anglo-American attitudes may elude modern readers, but the basic story of a hardheaded American family that buys a haunted British manor house and proceeds to drive the resident ghost nearly crazy with its skepticism is still a delight, as are Wilde's epigrams.

Casado con Diego Rivera y Jorge Cuesta, un poeta y el crítico, Lupe Mari'n se sumergen con el trabajo de Frida Kahlo, Javier Villarurutia, y otros artistas famosos a lo largo de los años 1900. Biblioteca breve (Seix Barral) serie, México.

Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

Una divertidísima y mordaz comedia femenina para reírte hasta de tus canas. Claudia, Clau para sus compiyoguis, ve cómo su vida transcurre entre arreglos florales, clases de hipopresivos, batidos detox y eventos de caridad desde su fabulosa mansión de la Costa Brava, hasta que descubre que la mansión no es suya, sino de su marido, y que este, sintiéndolo mucho, se ha echado una novia de la edad de su hija, que viene de camino a ocupar su trono. Clau decide dar la batalla a la usurpadora, instalándose en la casita de los guardeses de la finca, desde donde planea acechar la vida...