Salvese Quien Pueda

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Roma es una joven fotógrafa con toda una vida por delante prometida, postergada y negada por un estado ciego, sordo y mudo. Una gramola en un bar decadente escupe una canción que le arrastrará en una travesía sin planos, mapas o señales donde conocerá el verdadera significado del miedo a perder su amor, cuando creía que ya lo ha perdido todo. Esta es una novela, que habla de novelas, en tiempos de pandemia.

Presents the title story about the curious case of a baby, born in 1860, who begins life as an old man and who proceeds to age backward, accompanied by the tale of a young southerner who goes to New England, ostensibly for education.

Jean Paul Sanz recorre la ciudad de México en busca de la noticia que aparecerá en la primera plana del periódico La Nota Roja. Todos los días este reportero se enfrenta con historias donde la corrupción, pobreza, violencia e injusticia son constantes que