Anita

A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the second volume From eccentric Joanna's boarding house, predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time - and dragging with her a reluctant Cait, worrying about her figure and wanting to talk about books. Then she meets dark, long-faced Eugene Gaillard, a film director, and for a while Cait's romantic dreams seem to be fulfilled. But Eugene Gaillard is a Protestant divorcé, and when Cait's drunkard father gets to hear of it, he summons a lynch mob¿ Steering expertly between high romance, outright farce and the...

The latest novel by one of Panama's most productive and noted contemporary authors (Panama, 1936), narrating four histories of "cruel women" and the catharsis, truth, shame and love of special relationships.

Helena es una mujer que en apariencia lo tiene todo, pero en el fondo, ella sabe que algo no cuadra en su apacible vida de ama de casa, casada y madre de dos hijas. Una noche acude a una fiesta medieval, donde conoce a un hombre extraño envuelto en un halo de misterio ; y donde una vidente le vaticina un giro inesperado en su vida, alegando que tendrá de buscar sus orígenes y su destino. Desde este momento, la vida de Helena da un giro sorprendente, donde descubre que pudo ser víctima de un secuestro infantil . A través de la hipnosis alcanza a descubrir un pasado más que inquietante e...

While few among Hans Christian Andersen's characters know a truly happy ending, generations of readers across the centuries have crowned him as perhaps the most popular and beloved author in his genre. Andersen's own humble origins and the extreme poverty in which he grew up are echoed in the often harsh fictional worlds he created, and this wonderful collection compiles 200 of his most memorable stories--all in their original versions.