Recuerdos

Inspector Florencio Patn, a male chauvinist and a drunk man who hates his life, family and work, is assigned -much to his regret- to resolve a case in which the famous TV presenter Alberto Luis Conesa receives an anonymous letter with a secret about him that he must reveal under penalty of death.

The books here show Charles Bukowski's skill as a great short story writer, one who is a harsh portraitist of the urban underworld. With a cocktail of syncopated, visceral writing, black humour, uninhibited sex, and lots of alcohol, he outlines a sort of map of Los Angeles by painting its urban myths.

Three generations of women face their particular demons, the prejudices of their times and the imposition of a femininity that, invariably, leads to solitude. Machistofeles is a feminist saga filled with sakti (feminine energy), devastating family asymmetries, masculine women, feminine men, a lesbian chic way of life, peepshows, rebellious adolescents, postwar heroins, psychiatric jails, and dictatorships.

Francisco Camargo es un controvertido empresario español. Propietario de una naviera, una flotilla de aviones, una cadena de hoteles, otra de supermercados y varios bancos en España, tiene, además, grandes intereses económicos en la exótica Isla de Pascua. Allí ha iniciado las obras del hotel más lujoso de la isla y ha financiado un proyecto único cuyo fin es sacar a la luz una serie de “moais” de incalculable valor. En El Tejo, a escasos kilómetros de Santander, vive Jesús Labot. Cuñado de Camargo, Labot es un prestigioso abogado criminalista acostumbrado a defender a los...