El Hogar de Ninas Indeseadas

Su nombre es Sarah. Es rubia, de ojos azules y judía en la Alemania de 1939. Y sus actos de resistencia están a punto de hacer cambiar la historia

Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10—Francois de Borbón-Vendôme, the prince of Martigues—finds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her savior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame...

When Agustin Goytisolo decides to return to Cuba after many years in Spain, he does it with the firm conviction that his arrival will help him put in order the delicate situation of his family business. In addition to the constant worrying about the island's political situation and his personal affairs, an unexpected event will make things worse, the murder of his niece. With "Cienfuegos, August 17th," the authors have managed to convey the reality of a convulsive era previous to 1898. Slavery, the political situation the language used, creates a novel with personality and an intriguing...

Reflexiones biográficas y ficticias de un cineasta mítico. Tras unos años de silencio, el gran Gonzalo Suárez nos entrega otra de sus memorables obras, un libro donde confluyen una serie de textos de corte autobiográfico que conforman una suerte de retrato del mítico cineasta y escritor, y una nouvelle, esta vez sí de pura ficción, que nos propone una relectura de la tragedia de Hamlet en la que sobrevuela la duda de si los personajes podrán cambiar sus destinos, dictados cientos de años atrás. «La víctima siempre vuelve al lugar del crimen», afirma el autor. Pero en La musa...