Un corazón español

Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far...

Las ediciones anteriores a la 6a de "Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana" no incluían los apartados Boom, Posboom y Posmodernismo, por lo que ésta que ahora presentamos debe considerarse como un nuevo libro y, por lo tanto, debe tratarse como una novedad.

Grace is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she calls upon women to pay attention to their first impressions of men.

Un globo aerostático levanta vuelo cada mañana a través del manto neblinoso de un campo de batalla. Se llama Setembrada y está amarrado detrás de las trincheras de la Triple Alianza, a la manera de una atalaya flotante. Desde allí, el Chino y Bebeto vigilan, sobre todo, el sospechoso desplazamiento acuático de los camalotes, capaces de camuflar mortales ataques enemigos. Al Chino y a Bebeto se suman la mulata Silvaninha, hermana de Bebeto y novia del Chino, y Universo, el maestro desertor del ejército enemigo que busca a sus alumnos dispersos por la guerra. Desde quinientos metros de...