El cielo y la tierra segunda parte

Patrick O'Rourke is a tough Scottish businessman while Lady Katherine Lindsey is a beautiful English woman with plenty of charm, but too old to interest the bachelors of her social circle. She is forced to accept a marriage proposal of inconvenience from the attractive Scott. After the wedding, O'Rourke brings Katherine to his castle in Scotland, a decrepit place that is falling apart. He decides he will dominate his new wife using the only guide he has, Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. When their passion becomes unleashed, however, who will be the tamer and who will be the tamed?

Chronicling a man’s personal journey to find meaning in life, this darkly humorous novel follows Santiago Buscáceres, a history teacher who is caught in a mediocre life of unruly students, an indifferent family, and routine games of Parqués. One day, a simple but liberating occurrence reminds Santiago that the world has more to offer, setting him off on a trip in search of new possibilities. Through winding roads, first-class airplane cabins, and hotel rooms, however, he discovers that, despite having left his domestic bubble, he cannot escape dissatisfaction, skepticism, or, most...

Marianela, joven huérfana y de pobres atributos físicos, sirve de lazarillo de Pablo, joven ciego y de cómoda posición social, quien se enamora de la huérfana. Pablo, que sólo conocía el mundo a través de las descripciones que le hacía Nela y de las abundantes lecturas que le hacía su padre y que él recibía con avidez, jura a Nela que sus sentimientos hacia ella serán los mismos. Bajo la promesa de una vida juntos, Nela se entrega a la construcción de las más cándidas fantasías de vivir a su lado. Golfín, médico de mundo que llega a las minas para visitar a su hermano, se...

Inscribed in the rich fantastical tradition of Romanian literature while communing with other traditions, this book uses fantasy to denounce, in a covert manner, the grotesqueness of existence within a totalitarian state. The four stories included belong as much to fantastical literature as they do to testimony writing, the narrative combining as it does the confessional tone of a realistic journal with incursions from a visionary imagination. Rediscovered in 1977 after having been rejected by Romanian censorship due to its antisocial tendencies, this was the first book of short stories...