Piso para dos

This classic novel about the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and dominance of the Rio Grande Valley is available for the first time in Spanish. Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so...

Algo despertou no quarto 217 da Clínica de Traumatismo Cerebral. Algo maligno. Brady Hartsfield, o diabólico Assassino do Mercedes, está há cinco anos em estado vegetativo em uma clínica de traumatismo cerebral. Segundo os médicos, qualquer coisa perto de uma recuperação completa é improvável. Mas sob o olhar fixo e a imobilidade, Brady está acordado, e possui agora poderes capazes de criar o caos sem que sequer precise deixar a cama de hospital. O detetive aposentado Bill Hodges agora trabalha em uma agência de investigação com Holly Gibney, a mulher que desferiu o golpe em...

Año 1900. En una casa de la costa gallega dos mujeres sufren ataques de fuerzas que no atienden a las leyes físicas. El ruido de cien tormentas antecede al vuelo de los objetos mientras un gorila espalda plateada trata de ejercer con ellas su papel de semental. Nadie se explica qué motiva las aberraciones de la Casa de los Muertos..., porque su terrible secreto hay que buscarlo dieciocho años antes. Tres peculiares personajes coinciden allí para disputar el descubrimiento al arzobispado de Santiago. Son el médico y espiritista Manuel Otero Acevedo, el escritor de esperpentos Ramón...

This work, drawn from a symposium held at the University of Texas, El Paso, in March, 1992, brings together scholars from all over North America, as well as other parts of the world, to study diverse aspects of the comedia from an intellectual, academic perspective. Seven different aspects of the comedia are examined in detail: Spain and the New World; Staging the Comedia: Then and Now; Feminist and Gender Studies; Critical Approaches: From Philosophy to Psychology; Themes, Myths and Archetypes; The Comedia in History; The Text; and Authenticating and Editing. The variety and depth of these...