Los compradores de ojos

Lejos de lirismos gratuitos y artificios pretenciosos, el Premio Nobel de Literatura 1998 invita con este libro a tomar las maletas y viajar con el, a recorrer los mundos que ofrece la Ciudad de Jose, que no es sino su propia experiencia como escritor vital y su conmovedora vision de las cosas. Si en sus novelas de gran aliento Jose Saramago se ha revelado como un minucioso escultor de las palabras y de atmosferas de elevada carga poetica, la coleccion de textos breves de De este mundo y del otro y Las maletas del viajero se nos presenta como un muestrario de orfebreria fina, en el que el...

Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status, race, and class, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for...

"Mendoza's novel deals with the deterioration in Colombia as a result of the corrupting power and wealth of the drug mafia. Set in Barranquilla, the protagonist returns from Paris in search of friends and relatives. The novel compares the sophistication of established families to the tastelessness of the ascending rich. An acerbic view of the mafia's role in Colombia in recent years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Een handelaar moet op reis naar een ver, mysterieus land, dat hem met elke anekdote die hij hoort verschrikkelijker voorkomt. Satire op de Spaanse maatschappij in de jaren van het Franco-regime.