Sal de tierra, sal de mar

Galardonada con el Premio Bocaccio, El libro de mi destino retrata la vida en Teherán desde los años previos a la revolución de 1979 hasta el presente a través de la mirada de Masumeh, una mujer inquieta e inteligente criada en el seno de una familia tradicional iraní. Masumeh tiene quince años cuando conoce a Said, un aprendiz de farmacéutico, y entre ambos nace un sentimiento intenso y difícil de esconder. La relación termina saliendo a la luz, lo que provoca una inmensa decepción en su padre y la feroz oposición de sus hermanos. Condenada a recluirse en casa y aislada del mundo...

Jonathan, a young Argentine professional, lives a splendid life as a financial consultant, with an apartment in an excellent part of town, a fancy set of wheels, the finest brand-name clothes, and the respect and envy of the neighborhood, but when a crisis destroys everything, he goes back to step one without any apparent hope for a future.

A remarkable short story anthology of many of Latin America's finest women authors writing about fidelity and its absence in Latin America features contributions from Guadalupe Amor, Rosario Castellanos, Bárbara Jacobs, María Luisa Puga, Elena Garro, Ana Clavel, and many others.

Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the...