El soñador

Un joven de quince años recupera el conocimiento en un callejón de Londres, en 1873. Tiene una brecha en la cabeza y no recuerda nada de su pasado. Aunque exhibe unas extraordinarias dotes de deducción y es capaz de averiguarlo todo sobre los demás, su propia identidad se le resiste. Con la mente en blanco, tendrá que resolver un problema insoluble: un asesino ha amenazado al multimillonario Gideon K. Crispin. Este se encierra con llave en la habitación más segura de su casa, un policía guarda su puerta y otro, desde el jardín, vigila la única ventana. A pesar de todas las...

Martha Riva Palacio reshapes the myth of Orpheus to create a love story that repeats through time. The poetic prose, that is present in this short novel captivates and surrounds the reader into an atmosphere where Eurydice sings through the corridors of Argos, while a ship is suspended in the sea of time and Orpheus narrates, sometimes in his own voice, some others in the voice of his beloved, this encounters and disagreements, on which he will have to turn back again and again. Many stories intertwine this novel, making the reader the one and only person to discover which one is the real one ...

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.

18 love stories and poems by eighteen authors, famous and not-so-famous. Love stories to shed tears over. Love stories to sigh over. Love stories from which to die of laughter.