Ligia Cruz

Escándalo de sociedad Maureen Child Cuando los escándalos familiares salieron a la luz, se vio obligado a casarse... La novia de Simon Pearce lo había dejado plantado en el altar y la organizadora de bodas Megan Ashton se quedó de piedra cuando él le pidió que la sustituyera. Quería que fuera su mujer durante un año. Aunque sólo por negocios. La sorpresa pronto dejó lugar a la razón, pensó Megan: qué mejor manera de huir de su padre que casarse con un desconocido. Durante el día, Simon acompañaba a Megan para deleite de los periodistas de sociedad, pero de noche ella se...

A história de O Presidente Negro, único romance adulto de Monteiro Lobato, passa-se nos Estados Unidos e aborda temas como a segregação racial, aculturação, feminismo e ainda profetiza o surgimento de uma rede pela qual as pessoas se comunicariam e trabalhariam à distância, semelhante à internet. Através das lentes do “porviroscópio”, aparelho capaz de prever o futuro, Lobato leva os leitores para 2228, ano em que o personagem norte-americano Jim Roy, um negro, concorre à presidência.

The fate of three women, the opportunity to start over. It is the sixties and Maite, a young woman from the Barcelona aristocracy, decides to break with the conventions of the time and begins a new life in Paris. She flees a troubled past and a fate that haunts her. Years later, Teresa, her daughter, returns to Paris, her hometown, accompanied by little Lucia, a girl of special sensitivity. There she tries to put words to the silences and secrets of a family that always remained in the shadows. On her return to Paris, she delves into the intertwined destinies of three women from the same...

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Steven Holland-Wempe, Sandra Kingery, and the author. "This debut collection is amazing. The finesse of the storytelling is a pleasure on every page. The importance of immigrant issues becomes not a political statement so much as an epic story of all peoples' survival. Although the stories are not linked and take place in various geographies—China, Europe, the United States, and Mexico—still, the continuity remains with the heroine figure. She is a woman who travels through miseries, between the worlds of the living and the...