Secreto de amor

What happens when you love too much? Ileana is in the second year of high school when she meets a boy whom the rest of the students marginalize because of his limp. Her sister Manuela has left the flat, where she lived with her and her mother, to get away from an atmosphere that oppresses her and from a secret that nobody in that house wants to talk about but that weighs heavily on the atmosphere. Ileana discovers that the boy with whom her sister has gone to live abuses her and, therefore she begins to press for her "permission", as she has already done on other occasions, to act against her ...

Sin segundo nombre reúne diez relatos policiales protagonizados por Jack Reacher, el célebre personaje de Lee Child. Junto con Noche caliente (también publicado por Blatt & Ríos) conforman sus cuentos completos en una impecable traducción. Estas historias ahondan en la leyenda y los orígenes de la vida de Reacher. En Demasiado tiempo, es testigo casual de un arrebato callejero en una perdida ciudad de Maine, pero nada es lo que parece cuando las cosas caen, literalmente, ante sus ojos. Okinawa es el escenario de Segundo hijo, donde un adolescente Jack Reacher vive con sus padres y su...

En su primera adolescencia, Jenny Diski pasó largas horas en la Circle Line del metro de Londres, recorriendo el perímetro de esta ciudad mientras se entregaba a la lectura y a la observación de los demás pasajeros. Años más tarde, optará por una manera parecida de desplazarse al viajar por los Estados Unidos a bordo del ferrocarril.

"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,...