Diario de Teófilo

Megan Halland estudia el último curso de bachillerato y planea casarse con Jerry Barton en cuanto éste termine su doctorado y regrese de Nueva York. Tienen que pasar cuatro años separados, pero ella no tiene prisa y está dispuesta a esperarle. Megan sabe que su vecino, un hombre maduro y retraído llamado Fred Kent, la adora desde hace mucho. Por lo visto, posee una gran fortuna, pero está delicado de salud y nunca se ha atrevido a dar ningún paso. Ahora, sin embargo, viéndola sola, le confiesa que no le queda mucho de vida y le propone un trato...

The Lie Circumspect is a novel by Rita. Rita was an English novelist also known as Eliza Humphreys. Excerpt: "Startled and white as death, she looked up at his face. It was not the face she had known and loved in her girlish innocence; not the face that had haunted her memory for four despairing years. It was the face of a man into whose soul the iron of suffering had entered, whose heart had been seared, not purified, in the furnace of sorrow. It takes a great nature to bear deserved punishment, and Lawrence Latimer's nature was not great."

Nos hallamos ante un libro autobiográfico que también es una apología del apetito. No obstante haber padecido anorexia durante dos años, en el relato explica su vida a través del hambre y reivindica una glotonería en muchos registros: hambre de lenguas, de libros, de alcohol, de chocolate, ansia de belleza y de descubrimientos... Amélie Nothomb afirma que tiene «un apetito absoluto», al que asedia en este relato en todas sus formas, del éxtasis al horror, mientras se dibuja en filigrana la complicada paradoja de existir.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...