Demonios de Marte

Wealthy, self-made Gunther Schmidt is celebrating his 60th birthday in style: with sixty guests. 'Happy Birthday, old boy!' 'Welcome to the club!' But Gunther doesn't like being sixty. As he casts his eye over the assembled guests, he spots the luscious Linda, girlfriend of the mayor's son -- and just the one to keep him young... So when he goes to bed that night, he resolves to get rid of his boring wife Marion and have Linda instead. But Gunther hasn't bargained for what Linda and Marion think of the matter... 'Un-neurotic, clear-sighted and wickedly irreverent... The perfect antidote to...

Su escritura es un testimonio de notas tomadas al vuelo, retazos de sus días en un ruinoso -y carísimo- piso de alquiler, como crónicas bajo un nubarrón de precariedad vital y particularmente amorosa, porque en La Vida a Medias es precario hasta el amor. Para escribir su libro -este libro- se sirve del sentido del humor, de sus pasos de flâneur, de su sufrimiento de amante desbordado, de las noches de fiesta -como si hubiera algo que celebrar-, de divertidos recuerdos de relaciones absurdas, de punzantes reflexiones sobre la ausencia de formalidad y honradez en España. La vida en Madrid ...

Esta historia nos abre una nueva ventana a un mundo asombroso. Cuajada de detalles históricos y maravillosos personajes, Dos chicas de Shanghai es una novela sobre la complejidad de los sentimientos que anidan en el seno de la familia y marcan el destino de las personas. Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios. De temperamentos casi opuestos, las dos...

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...