La Bailarina

El árbol que brotó de la tumba del primer soberano de Egipto para demostrar a los hombres su victoria sobre la muerte se está marchitando porque unas potencias maléficas intrigan para lograr la desaparición de Egipto. Un joven aprendiz de escriba, Iker, se convierte involuntariamente en un personaje clave de este misterio.

Eveline Clausen, the troubled protagonist, is the daughter of a German father and Jewish mother, who grows up during the ascension of Nazism. An autobiographical character that loses her naivety, innocence, begins to live avidly and intensely to dispel all the fears she's had since childhood. The men that pass through her life are similar means to avoid the hard reality of persecution and hunger, though they are also deceived by this young woman.

La mujer de hierro es una novela de modales de la escritora estadounidense Margaret Deland ambientada en el lugar ficticio del siglo 19 de Mercer, una comunidad del río Ohio que representa a Pittsburgh, Pensilvania. La novela cuenta la historia de la señora Maitland, una anciana viuda coriácea que posee y opera un molino de hierro. Su devoción a una ética de trabajo puritana aliena a su hijo Blair, quien aunque hereda el negocio, es testarudo y está enamorado de Elizabeth Ferguson, una pareja que la señora Maitland desaprueba.

Sabelotodo Entiendelonada is a collection of six stories which continue and extend the themes cultivated by the author in Tunomás Honey. Very much at home in the northern New Mexican highlands, author Sagel offers us fresh insights into the distinctive multicultural environment of his tierra. The title story recounts the comical but poignant sinsabores of Sabelotodo Entiendelonada, a man so nicknamed because of the contrast between his extensive formal legal education his total ineptitude at simple ranching activities requiring no more than common sense. Among the other unusual characters in ...