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Antonio Altarriba was one of the finalist at XVIII Award La Sonrisa Vertical with his work: Interwoven Bodies. He offers us now four juicy stories in which reveals the hidden life of some fictional characters, that unconfessed intimacy the authors never tell. So Penelope, Scheherazade, Victor Frankenstein and Alice come to life and venture into erotic relations that take the reader to ancient Greece, to the East, Victorian England, to explore ancient myths and stories with a new look, undoubtedly much more sensual, and explore the relationship between wisdom and beauty, between eroticism and...

Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality. Iain Reid’s intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers’ nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the...

"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her Cousin is Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816), regarded as the official initiator of the novel genre in Spanish America, in "La Quijotita..." Fernandez de Lizardi extends his view on society to encompass the female condition. In tune with his liberal stance the author states with clarity the active role women should play within the new Mexican society, and highlights the importance of educating them along modern principles. Composed mainly of...

Paris era un guerrero inmortal poseído por el demonio de la Promiscuidad y con un atractivo irresistible que también suponía una pesada carga. Cada noche debía acostarse con alguien nuevo si no quería debilitarse hasta morir. Y la mujer a la que deseaba más que a ninguna otra estaba completamente fuera de su alcance… o eso había creído hasta ese momento. Sienna Blackstone había llevado en su interior hasta hacía muy poco el demonio de la Ira, que la atormentaba con la constante necesidad de castigar a todos los que la rodeaban. Sin embargo, entre los brazos de Paris, aquella joven ...