Historia de una enfermera

Un rotundo alegato a favor de la libertad y en contra del totalitarismo que se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX. Esta sátira de la Revolución rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derechos propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas de totalitarismo en una organización aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros líderes más carismáticos, la sombra de los opresores más crueles. La presente...

John Rain, a hard and resourceful man in his 40s with an American mother, a Japanese father, a childhood spent in both countries and a stretch with Special Operations in Vietnam that literally made him what he is today a highly paid freelance assassin. The book begins with Rain arranging the death (on the subway) of a prominent government figure by short-circuiting his pacemaker and making it look like the man died of a heart attack. But Rain's simple life suddenly becomes very complicated when he finds himself involved both romantically and professionally with the dead man's lovely daughter, ...

Publisher Annotation: This is a compilation of chronicles about the Mexican capital. A City Called Mexico. Villoro's great achievement in The Horizontal Vertigo resides in his ability to understand and make the city known through different characters, occupations, and beliefs. He finds a new, postmodern way of portraying the contemporary city. World Literature Today Narrativa (Editorial Almadia) series, Mexico, Photos, 416pp.

Basada en la saga familiar de la propia autora, esta novela nos cuenta la historia de una familia mexicana, entretejida a partir de los recuerdos de espectadores y protagonistas de la misma, formando un retrato entrañable de generaciones múltiples.