Paraguas rotos

Broken Umbrellas is an unusual literary work that explores human beings’ most primitive emotions and feelings through a series of different, interconnected stories. These are stories that explore madness and dementia as alternative avenues for surviving a reality that overwhelms us. The author reflects upon the value of death and freedom, and takes us through the ins and outs of repressed violence—always unjustified—but so often desired. Broken Umbrellas intends to be much more than just a collection of stories. Through its words, it seeks to offer introspective reading, rouse...

Cuando te rompen el corazón, solo quedan las piezas y los recuerdos que guardas en un cajón para siempre. Miranda Evans deja toda su vida en Seattle después de que Daniel rompe el suyo y decide viajar a Kenia para unirse a Médicos sin Fronteras, un lugar que se convertirá en su segundo hogar, donde vivirá experiencias únicas y conocerá a Aiden, el príncipe azul que siempre soñó y que tiene todo aquello que no le brindó su gran amor. Tras vivir bajo la sombra de un legado, tendrá que regresar a la Ciudad Esmeralda para cumplir su sueño de ser la mejor cirujana pediátrica. Sin...

Ciertas personas constituye un retrato de época -años cincuenta en una ciudad española de provincias- realizado al hilo de un robo sacrílego y sus posteriores consecuencias y desenlace. Las relaciones entre el mundo marginal -tan sórdido como su época- y el poder provinciano de la dictadura establecen la tensión narrativa básica de Ciertas personas -tercera novela de Fernando G. Delgado-. Luego, el total se enriquece y adensa con una trama de amores cruzados, pasiones inconfesables, bajos instintos o heterodoxias sexuales. Uno de sus personajes aparece sometido a presiones fetichistas ...

Captain Adonis Monasterio, a solitary and introverted man, is dismissed from his position for not finding a murderer. Despite his apparent ineffectiveness, he continues investigating and finds the murderer on his own.

Leal recounts his experiences as a "child of the Mexican Revolution, " recalling the entrance of Villa and Zapata into Mexico City. He describes his life in Chicago from 1927 to 1943 and then in the Philippines as a member of the American armed forces. He also discusses his academic career and his contributions to Chicano literary criticism. The unusual format of a conversation between two friends gives readers a taste of the "tertulias" that Don Luis hosts, at which colleagues, friends, and students discuss literature, life, and art, thus reviving the Hispanic tradition of the "literary...