La orilla perra del mundo

From author of THE THORN BIRDS, one of the biggest-selling books of all time, comes this epic saga of love, betrayal and redemption in 1920s Australia. The four Latimer sisters are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, ambition and sisterly love. They thought that would never change. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father's townhouse for the spartan bunks of nursing accommodation. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they must confront their own secret desires as the world changes around them. Will the...

Fátima al-Faqadi lleva cerca de mil años hostigando y destruyendo a otras criaturas de la noche. Pocos pueden hacerle sombra. Existe para servir. Todo por la gloria de Haqim, Antediluviano fundador del clan Assamita.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. That's what Harriet Gibson thought after getting married there with Luke Evans, the first stranger who crossed her path. His marital role was all she needed to collect the inheritance from her father. Two years later he finds her in the small town where she lives.

En el poema "Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo", Rubén Darío compartía la melancolía causada por la persecución de lo inasible mediante versos tan memorables como éste, que cito literalmente: "al abrazo imposible de la Venus de Milo". Y eso es lo que me propuse narrar en esta colección de relatos fugaces: impulsos fronterizos. Metáforas de la inconsistencia y la soledad, o como poco de la singularidad. Sueños insomnes, teoremas sin conclusiones, fantasmas sin castillo o abrazos sin brazos. Nos hallaremos, pues, con personajes bajo pasiones evanescentes, atónitos ante...