La Obra de Jorge Semprún

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

"Hace 50 años Latinoamérica se convulsionó por una serie de sucesos políticos, religiosos, culturales y artísticos con los que demostró que su gente era capaz de agenciar movimientos contraculturales y revolucionarios que ponían en crisis el sistema capitalista y la sociedad tradicional. Estudiantes, mujeres, intelectuales, artistas, fueron los artífices de los cambios de estos años, mientras México, Medellín, Buenos Aires, La Habana, Cali, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Lima, entre otras urbes latinoamericanas, sintieron los ecos de la juventud que protestaba para sacudir el mundo...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...