La marca de España

Tessa and her kind are sick and tired of being the victims. Now is payback time! "Shooting pool all by yourself can be fun for a little while, but it gets boring in the end, and I had been doing it for two days in a row now. All I knew was that this was where the recruiter was likely to show up. I hoped that my platinum blond hair and my innocent blue eyes would be enticing enough for him to hit on me; otherwise, I would have to find another way. But wait a minute--you have no idea what this is all about, right? And you may be wondering what blond hair and blue eyes I'm blabbering about when...

"Somos cuatro montañistas perdidas a punto de encontrarse. Cuatro fugitivas que jamás volverán a pisar la cárcel de la que escaparon." Entre Thelma & Louise y el movimiento #NiUnaMenos, What ́s up mamis es una road novel en torno de cuatro mujeres que integran un grupo de Whatsapp. Paloma –la narradora–, Vicky, Sole y Majo forman parte de un chat disidente del colegio de sus hijos. Sus intercambios transcurren dentro de cierta normalidad que alterna información y chismes, hasta que un objeto inesperado aparece en la mochila de Inti, el hijo de Paloma, y lo trastoca todo. Desde ese...

A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend. Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker. As open warfare settles into a wary truce between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce, Irish Dancer, out of retirement...

Una plaga de grillos asola un pueblecito del Perú. Este suceso altera por completo las vidas ordinarias y pacíficas de sus habitantes, al tiempo que pone en marcha la más absurda de las carambolas políticas tanto a nivel local como nacional. Un retrato certero de todo un pueblo que va de lo pequeño a lo universal, de lo particular a lo trascendental, todo ello aderezado con una prosa tan bella como contundente. Elena Portocarrero fue una escritora peruana nacida en Lambayeque en 1931 y fallecida en Madrid en 2011. Agregada cultural de la Embajada del Perú en Buenos Aires, dirigió el...