La raya oscura

Una historia finalista en un concurso internacional de ciencia ficción, hoy sale a la luz. Sinopsis La llegada a un planeta desierto, provisto de condiciones ideales para la vida, fue un gran motivo de alegría para la raza ishteriana. Excepto para Vilet, un científico que ansiaba contactar a civilizaciones inteligentes. Todo era progreso. Hasta que tuvo lugar un hallazgo inusual, tan inesperado como enigmático. Y aún sin saber su significado, las pistas apuntan a un acontecimiento siniestro. Algo que a falta de testigos presenciales, sólo permiten imaginar el terror, la desesperación y ...

Nueva York, 1903: en la ciudad de las oportunidades, en la que desembarcan doce mil extranjeros cada día, en la que los italianos son detestados como extraños supersticiosos y criminales, recalan, desde un minúsculo pueblo, Diamante y Vita, dos chiquillos de doce y nueve años. Él es taciturno, orgulloso y temerario. En una caótica pensión de Prince Street, en el gueto italiano del downtown, los esperan Agnello, el padre de ella; Lena, su nueva compañera; Rocco, Geremia, Coca-Cola y, sobre todo, América. Entre hambre, vejaciones, prepotencias de la Mano Negra y de un padre posesivo,...

Leading theater historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of Medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impresarios, and architects and ensembles, in indicating the ways in which theater has both commented on and intervened in the major debates and issues of the day. Chapters consider paratheatrical...

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, ...