Pelusa Baby

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

En Burdeos varios personajes (hombres y mujeres de diferente edad y condición) persiguen la soledad, el estado en que la vida cobra sentido en sí misma sin necesidad de matrimonios, hijos o amantes para ser algo pleno, un flujo armónico carente de jalones

John Katzenbach nos ofrece una novela emblemática del mejor suspense psicológico. «Feliz aniversario, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte.» Así comienza el anónimo que recibe el psicoanalista Frederick Starks, y que le obliga a emplear toda su astucia y rapidez para, en quince días, averiguar quién es el autor de esa amenazadora misiva que promete hacerle la vida imposible. De no conseguir su objetivo, deberá elegir entre suicidarse o ser testigo de cómo, uno tras otro, sus familiares y conocidos mueren por obra de un psicópata decidido a llevar hasta el final su sed de...

Zapatista is faithfully based upon the facts of the 1994 Chiapas Indian uprising in Southern Mexico. It is designed to be interesting to a reader simply wanting to read an adventure story, as well as one interested in the deeper drama of a people's revolution. The protagonist, Peter, is a Texan who sabbaticals with his friends in the Sierra Madre for the purpose of writing, drinking, and seeking adventure. Peter gets more adventure than anticipated. A whirlwind of circumstances hurls him away from his friends and into revolutionary life and death struggles. These adventures and the love of an ...