Historia, memoria y ficción

Una mujer intenta suicidarse en la habitación de un hotel y su acto pone al descubierto la inquietante naturaleza de sus relaciones con quienes la rodean, el artificio de la amistad, la dificultad de establecer lazos sólidos con los otros y de encontrar s

Shanti's quest hangs on the edge of a knife... With Isaru's state critical, Shanti and the crew must leave him in the Hollow. They return to Colonia, this time with leverage that might see her parents saved. But things go from bad to worse when the Sanctum seeks retribution. Shanti finds herself a hunted woman. Former friends have turned to enemies as she flees to the Ruins. There, she hopes vainly that the Sphere Priests will know the true location of Anna's prophecy. They point her in the last place she expected -- the domed cities of the Shen Collective. When she meets with the...

Muerte y corrupción en la idílica isla de Sandhamn, el primer caso para Thomas Andreasson y Nora Linde.

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 ...