Destinos cruzados

Excerpt from El Sereno de MI Barrio: Zarzuela en un Acto, Dividido en Cuatro Cuadros, en Prosa Enrique Povedano. Enrique Moreno. Alberto González. Jaime Parell. Emilio Miguel. Alberto) González. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the...

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.

El inspector Villanueva ha vuelto a recibir una llamada desde Sevilla: "¿Por qué me llama Jiménez? ¿Ha cantado José Manuel Poto? --Tiene varios discos Villanueva, pero del cante que nos interesa de Poto todavía no hay novedad, sigue en la cárcel sin decir ni media. Le llamo por otra noticia mucho peor, me temo. --¿Qué ha pasado? --Hay otra víctima. --¿Cómo que otra víctima? ¿Otro muerto? ¿Pero con una regañá? --No, han elegido un arma aún más peculiar. Será mejor que coja el AVE lo antes posible y lo vea usted mismo, pero tenga una cosa clara: quien quiera que haya...

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...