Poder y supervivencia en Kenia

While few among Hans Christian Andersen's characters know a truly happy ending, generations of readers across the centuries have crowned him as perhaps the most popular and beloved author in his genre. Andersen's own humble origins and the extreme poverty in which he grew up are echoed in the often harsh fictional worlds he created, and this wonderful collection compiles 200 of his most memorable stories--all in their original versions.

Un probable caso de dobles dispara una historia fascinante acerca de oportunidades perdidas y misterios sin aparente resolución. Yeniva Fernández explora en el realismo desde una mirado oblicua, entre los intersticios que la literatura de género deja, y por eso acaso su literatura resulte más reveladora, más incisiva. A Los ríos de Marte, la nouvelle que abre este conjunto, le siguen los cuentos de Trampas para incautos, en donde el elemento fantástico y lo maravilloso es predominante.

Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) participó del insigne grupo de Bloomsbury y fundó con su marido una editorial en la que publicó, entre otros escritores importantes, a sus amigos T.S. Elliot y Katherine Mansfield. Además del celebérrimo ensayo Una habitación propia o de la novela La señora Dalloway, Woolf es también la autora de una valiosa obra de cuentos de la que recogemos aquí una muestra representativa. La obra de la autora está unánimemente considerada como una de las cotas más altas de la prosa inglesa y a menudo sus cuentos constituían experimentos o probaturas y ejercicios...

Guillermo Rosales was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1946. From a very young age. He was disillusioned with the communist regime in his country which made it impossible for him to publish his volumes of writings, of which he was able to save El juego de la viola. In 1978 he went into exile and settled in Miami, where we wrote Boarding Home, winner of the 1986 Letras de Oro award, and one of the most outstanding novels in recent Cuban history. Suffering from an incurable mental ailment, as well as ghosts from his hostile past and a persistent sense of failure, Guillermo Rosales ended his life on...