Ciudad sin estrellas

Tokio ya no nos quiere es un libro de viajes, una novela sobre el amor, un texto contra la memoria y la esperanza que nos describe un mundo en el que los humanos son extranjeros de sí mismos y el miedo lo ocupa todo. Un viaje a un futuro no muy lejano en el que una de las drogas legales es un producto químico que permite borrar de la memoria los recuerdos no deseados. En un mundo en el que se ha descubierto la vacuna contra el sida, el protagonista viaja desde Arizona al sudeste asiático envuelto en situaciones en las que el placer es la única norma. La crítica ha dicho... «Excelente...

‘Yo, Manuel Azaña’. This is not a biography, nor is it a play. Neither is it fiction. It is a work that combines several narrative genres out of which emerges the voice of the President of the Second Republic of Spain to defend democracy and to condemn the monstrosity that the Spaniards are facing that is causing so much pain. Manuel Azaña brilliantly analyzes the principal accomplishments of his time: the difficulties in consolidating democracy, the armed attack against the Republic, the irresponsible actions of England and France, the critical milestones of the war, the bitter...

Witty, orphaned Tess Essex faces her duty: marry well and marry quickly, so she can arrange matches for her three sisters ?Dbeautiful Annabel, romantic Imogen, and practical Josie. After all, right now they're under the awkward guardianship of the perpetually tipsy Duke of Holbrook. But just when she begins to think that all might end well, one of her sisters bolts with a horse-mad young lord, leaving her fianc??. Which leaves Tess considering marriage to the sort of man she wishes to avoid ?Done of London's most infamous rakes, Lucius Felton. He is a scoundrel whose own mother considers him...

"On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair."