La Flor de Jade 4

“De buena mañana, el caserío de Gibraltar era un largo espigón nublado, con edificios de hechuras desproporcionadas y colores tenues, a la sombra caliza de una montaña que parecía nadar en mitad del Estrecho. Eran tiendas hindúes, comercios sefardíes, bufetes de picapleitos que iban y venían a Londres en aviones que parecían paquebotes, en jornadas que resultaban eternas, pues todo resultaba invariable, permanente, como el orgullo minera, verdiazul, del Peñón propiamente dicho, como si la vida se hubiera estancado en un puñado de acres sin puerta de salida, sin otra relación...

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

He aquí una novela ambiciosa, centrada, valiente y polémica, en la que las vidas de unos jóvenes que se conocen en la universidad se van entrelazando en un futuro cercano de profesionalismo global y ciencia comercial. Nuestra protagonista lucha por no ceder a la sutil discriminación sexual que padece, mientras sigue de manera errática las pistas de un cambio genético que está transformando silenciosamente los conflictos de género (y quizá la sociedad entera) en algo completamente nuevo.

The road of Sandra Miller’s life is strewn with the corpses of those who loved her or simply got in her way. She was born in a small town in Maine on a stormy night with thunder and lightning sent by the devil himself. She was born to be bad, and yet her evil is hidden well beneath bright green eyes and a sexual presence no man can resist. She focuses on the so-called stronger sex, weaving a web of seduction until she catches her prey, and the road of her life has been strewn with the corpses of those who loved her—and those simply got in her way. She continues on her hellish path, even...