Flores de trinchera

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...

After breaking her leg and losing her low-paying job as a graphic designer, Agata Martí has no choice but to accept that she doesn't know what she's doing with her life. Maybe that's why she decides to follow the advice of her older brother and move to London for a while. Guillermo asked a friend for a favor, found Agata a place to stay and has a job waiting for her. She will be able to recover, improve her resume and then return to Barcelona ready to take on the world.The problem is that Guillermo has asked Gabriel for a favor.Gabriel Trevelyan is now a renowned journalist in London, but as ...

Por un lamentable error, la guerrilla argentina secuestra a un gris cónsul honorario, sin ningún interés para el gobierno británico. La pretensión de negociar queda rápidamente frustrada, y el cónsul, Charles Fortnum, queda en manos de un grupo encabezado por un ex sacerdote con el que le unieron vínculos de amistad.

En Los días animales , libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Narrativa "Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta" 2019, cuatro historias que parecen independientes unen a diversos personajes en diferentes tiempos y espacios a través un hilo en común: las relaciones humanas. En este compilado, Jorge Zúñiga nos muestra cómo padres, cuñados, (ex)parejas y hermanos se enredan en una maraña de revanchas, nostalgia, resentimientos, amores complejos y abrumadores presentimientos. De Tijuana a Xalapa, de la felicidad conyugal a las implacables rupturas, los protagonistas de estos cuentos se enfrentan a sus...