Crónicas inexplicables

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

El cuerpo sin vida de una mujer es hallado en un espacio natural protegido de Mallorca. La investigación posterior produce la detención de un político de la isla. Simultáneamente, Rita Mendoza, la única detective privado de una agencia de investigación gaditana, se halla inmersa en un caso local, ignorante de que su pasado la relaciona con el macabro hallazgo. Sin desearlo, Mendoza se verá envuelta en un caso de corrupción política en el que la evasión fiscal y la recalificación de suelo rústico en urbanizable es solo la punta del iceberg de una trama de blanqueo y fuga de...

Este es Lenardo Espinosa, lejanamente emparentado con Pedro Páramo, ese otro habitante de nuestra América experto en violaciones, traiciones, robos y asesinatos, pero más cercano a otro antihéroe gardeazabalesco como es León María Lozano que, al decir de Jonathan Tittler en El verbo y el mando, "comparte con el jefe político de Trujillo una serie impresionante de cualidades”: su base histórica en el Valle del Cauca, los orígenes humildes del protagonista, su exacerbado provincialismo, su provincialismo, su primitivismo, su incapacidad para articular sus pensamientos o sentimientos, ...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...