El juego de Sade

Neil Gaiman presents us with a collection of twenty-five stories and poems, a creative feast from one of today's writers with the most fertile and disturbing imagination. A tasting menu that exhibits Gaiman's entire potential: ghost stories, speculative fiction, fairy tales, and wicked fables.

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...

An undisputed modern Japanese classic, this novel narrates the adventures of Botchan, who is sent as a teacher to a rural school located in the remote island of Shikoku. In his new post he will encounter a series of unusual characters, but above all he will be forced to face a horde of feral children who are devoted to making his life miserable. Un clásico moderno japonés, esta novela narra las aventuras de Botchan, quien es asignado como maestro a una escuela rural en la isla remota de Shikoku. En esta nueva posición, se enfrentará a toda una serie de personajes peculiares, pero, más...

Solo con mi mujer Dimitrios Pandakis había jurado que, a diferencia de su hermano, él jamás se dejaría atrapar por el matrimonio, y se había tomado tan en serio su promesa que, a pesar de su fama de rompecorazones, ¡nunca se había acostado con una mujer! Pero de pronto su nueva secretaria empezó a poner a prueba la firmeza de tal juramento. Con su aspecto sencillo, Alexandra Hamilton se las había arreglado para colarse en el corazón de Dimitrios, y él sabía que solo había una cosa que lo haría sentirse satisfecho: ¡casarse! Una vida por delante Zoe debía su vida a la...