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Tras haber encontrado a su novio en la cama con otra, Claire, periodista encargada de la sección de entretenimiento de una conocida revista, intenta mitigar sus penas con algunos tequilas en un bar de moda. Allí vuelve a encontrar a Cole Brannon, un astr

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. Perfectly constructed, funny, and moving, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan and...

A contemptible writer writes his masterpiece, a screenplay for Soviet Hollywood in a futuristic past in which Argentina and a good portion of the world have joined the USSR against the rest of the world: the capitalist countries with New York as their capital city. In this hypothetical socialist Argentina the betrayals are the same ones they have always been: political in appearance, but quite human in reality, more tied to people’s characters than to the rules that they use to try to organize themselves. Un escritor despreciable escribe la obra de su vida, un guión cinematográfico para...

Primer volumen de obras completas del cuentista chileno Baldomero Lillo, relatos cortos de profundo corte naturalista y arraigados en un realismo social que disecciona la realidad chilena de su época. Contiene los siguientes relatos: Juan Fariña, La barrena, La chascuda, La compuerta número 12 y La cruz de Salomón. Baldomero Lillo es un autor nacido en Lota (Chile) en 1867 y fallecido en Santiago de Chile en 1923. Dedicó buena parte de su obra al relato corto, llegando a estar considerado hoy en día como uno de los mejores cuentistas chilenos y un maestro del subgénero del realismo...