Archivo y terror

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

La primera novela de las «Crónicas del Renacimiento» de Christian Gálvez, un thriller histórico en el que se dan cita arte, venganza y pasión. Todos admiran al genio, pocos conocen al hombre. «Meser Leonardo da Vinci tiene un concepto tan herético que no se atiene a ninguna religión y estima más ser filósofo que cristiano. Por lo tanto, la resolución es firme y clara: debemos matar a Leonardo da Vinci». Europa, siglo XVI. Mientras España, Francia e Inglaterra ultiman su unificación, los Estados italianos se ven envueltos en conflictos permanentes por culpa de la religión, el...

Lucy is a bored and frustrated housewife; she has little or no fun and excitement in her life. She is home most days, cleaning and doing housework, her marriage to Ken epitomizing her frustration and need to change her life. To break away from the mundane, Lucy likes to fantasize — and even role play — her fantasies in secret dressing up sessions. After one of her special boudoir moments, a chance encounter takes Lucy on an unexpected journey to a place she has never heard of: the Sin Café. Once inside, she soon discovers a very different world to the one she knows, which not only...

Ross Poldark es la primera novela de la popular serie POLDARK., que ahora se ha convertido una vez más en una de las grandes series internacionales de televisión, protagonizada por Aidan Turner.