La inglesa y el torero

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

Marcus is a priest and has a gift: he detects the evil that dwells in people. Sandra is a police photographer. And she also has a gift: she can make the invisible visible. Now the two have combined their talents to hunt down an abominable murderer - someone who only targets young couples as victims. The investigation of the crimes takes them to the Vatican, to the archive where the greatest crimes of humanity are treasured. An inventory of absolute evil. A sinister place where everything is darkness. With a dizzying pace, Carrisi weaves a story in which the reader fights the same fight as...

Esta colección de cuentos, es una pequeña selección de los 210 relatos que coleccionaron los hermanos Grimm. Su extraordinaria difusión ha contribuido decisivamente a divulgar cuentos como Blancanieves, La Cenicienta, Hänsel y Gretel, La Bella Durmiente, entre otros. Los textos se fueron adornando y, a veces, censurando de edición en edición debido a su extrema dureza. Los Grimm se defendían de las críticas argumentando que sus cuentos no estaban dirigidos a los niños. Pero, para satisfacer las exigencias del público burgués, tuvieron que cambiar varios detalles de los originales. ...

Un monje de Poblet es asesinado cuando trabajaba en la restauración de una reliquia en un convento de clausura barcelonés. Tras el desconcierto inicial, Petra Delicado y su ayudante Fermín se documentan en el monasterio de Poblet. La investigación se encaminará hacia dos focos: los hechos de la Semana Trágica de 1909 y la oscura trayectoria de una poderosa familia benefactora del convento.