Por si me oyes

Ramón Pernas, Premio Azorín 2014, ofrece una narración delicadamente literaria y muy evocadora basada en las voces de sus protagonistas, desde su infancia en un pueblo gallego costero, Vilaponte, hasta el comienzo de su ancianidad, el momento clave para reencontrarse con los niños que fueron y hacerse por fin los favores que se deben. Justo Pastor y sus tres hermanas, Áurea, Argentea y Cobre, el amigo íntimo desde la niñez de Justo, Humberto Rey, el marinero también amigo de Justo que llega al pueblo ya en su madurez para abrir una librería, el sastre Nicanor Corbelle y sus dos...

It was a time of tense emotion. Each was a surge with an almost uncontrollable excitement as the two men moved up the whole length of the riffled sluice. Neither uttered one single word. But they moved slowly on either side of the long, primitive, box-like construction, keeping pace, each with the other, as though in a mutual desire that such fortune as was theirs should be witnessed together, as though neither had courage to face alone the possibilities of this their first serious "washing." At each riffle the men paused. The more emotional of the two, Len Stern, thrust out a hand and...

Beneficio Duran is like the wild lava capped mesa where he lived all but the last two years of his eighty-three. They are both remnants of the past. Black Mesa survived eons of erosion by its had basaltic cap--Beneficio survived by living with the pride and rough wisdom of los Castizos, his ancestors. On the mesa, he had been isolated from pressures and forces that were changing New Mexico and the other Hispanics living on and off the land grants. Beneficio discovered his wife, Maria, in the village of Cebolleta at the base of Black Mesa. Maria bore him Philip then died while trying to...

Cinco inquietantes relatos, tan diferentes entre sí como terroríficos, en los que el autor explora diversas vertientes del género del terror, desde el miedo más sutil hasta los más profundos y grotescos horrores, dignos de las peores pesadillas. Ninguno de ellos te dejará indiferente.