La señora Mike

It was in 2006 that Mexican writer Sergio Pitol, born in 1933, received a definite international honor. In April, he was awarded the Premio Cervantes de Literatura, equivalent of the Nobel Prize of Spanish literature. His literary universe blends autobioghraphy, fiction, essay and chronicle with incomparable magic. This first volume of his collected words presents his first two novels, El taqido de una flauta (1973) and Juegos Florales (1985).

Teresa Jones’s dreams of flying contrast sharply with her dreary, earthbound life working as a filing-clerk in a CD store, and suffering the constant nagging of her academic parents, who are outraged at her stubborn refusal to go to college. Her best friend – the popular, successful and apparently happy college freshman Elena Kravchuk – has the perfect prescription for Teresa’s depression: she needs to get laid. When the two girls meet Miguel Angel Ramirez, a misfit Mexican immigrant who builds and flies kites for a living, Elena goes to work as match-maker to bring him together for a ...

Falstaff decide arreglar su problema financiero seduciendo a las esposas de dos comerciantes ricos. Las esposas descubren que les envió cartas idénticas y se vengan jugándole trucos a Falstaff cuando las viene a llamar. Con la ayuda de sus esposos y amigos, las esposas juegan un último truco en el bosque para poner fin a la travesura de Falstaff.

Cuando su matrimonio de larga data termina abruptamente a raíz de la infidelidad de su marido, la profesora de la universidad de Madrid, Blanca Perea, lucha por reconstruir su propia vida al investigar la de una escritora española enigmática que murió décadas antes.