El rescate del Mesías

El protagonista de esta novela es un adolescente inteligente y sensible que tiene que separarse de su amigo de infancia y adaptarse a los nuevos compañeros al abandonar la escuela e iniciar el bachillerato. Desde el primer día de clase se espera que demuestre lo que vale para salir bien librado del inevitable reparto de papeles del que dependerá su suerte durante el curso. Y aunque está decidido a resistirse a este rito tan incomprensible como doloroso, la pequeña sociedad formada por los alumnos terminará imponiéndole su porción de sufrimiento, una herida que perdurará intacta hasta ...

«Negro corazón» trata del deseo de un hombre maduro por una muchacha, y de la pasión de la joven por ese hombre, pasión que parece no extinguirse con el tiempo y la distancia, y que interiormente transforma a Ivonne, quien recuerda los momentos felices, la traición mutua, los celos, las obsesiones, los reclamos del hombre y sus propios anhelos. Pero la verdadera historia no transcurre en el lecho de los amantes, sino en el interior de ambos, lo que constituye solo un punto de referencia para construir dos personajes con una psicología propia que se despliega ante la mirada del lector...

"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...

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...