PECADO Y PENITENCIA DE UN SACERDOTE

I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

«Los cuentos de Diego Fischerman tienen algo de ventana y algo de puerta. Se comienza a leerlos desde afuera. Y de pronto descubrimos que ya estamos dentro, y que ya nunca podremos salir de allí. Entonces comprendemos que hemos sido hechos prisioneros por un gran narrador. Bienvenidos a su casa».

In the second seductive LOST novel from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden, an obsessed Last Option Search Team agent goes looking for trouble—and finds her in the Big Easy. Dean Bannon comes to New Orleans for one reason only: to track down a missing sixteen-year-old girl. That’s before he meets the drop-dead gorgeous con artist who makes him want to lose his legendary control. With her past, Emma Castille doesn’t claim to be psychic. She just notices things other people don’t. Like the fear in a runaway’s eyes—or the pain in an ex-FBI agent’s heart. Her chemistry...

El mundo del relato es el del atajo, y para desbrozarlo no sirve el machete, sino la navaja.” Con estas palabras incluidas en el prólogo de El síndrome Chéjov, nos encontramos ante un libro de cuentos que deslumbra desde la contundencia y la claridad de sus propuestas preliminares en torno al género. Homer Simpson, Woody Allen o Antón Chéjov, personajes tocados por una escritura firme, desfilan por los once cuentos que constituyen esta “colección íntima”. Miguel Ángel Muñoz se nos muestra como un cuentista puro, en estado constante de acierto narrativo en su propuesta...