Velocidad de los jardines

"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,...

Este libro bipolar, es, parte narrativa global, novela, reportaje periodístico, cuento, parte biografía múltiple, parte túnel ecléctico, sondeo descriptivo, circular, concéntrico o excéntrico, basado en hechos reales o irreales. Sea como sea, éste libro intenta encarnar, meterse en el organismo, en el pellejo, en las tripas, en el páncreas, en las vísceras de cada niño para auscultar el hambre, el abandono y la humillación de cada uno de ellos, de cada adolescente mara o pandillero que pululan por los cuatro costados de la patria o por las grandes urbes, por las calles sin...

Ramiro es un incipiente escritor que se arriesga a seguir el desolado sendero de la cultura, convencido de su superioridad intelectual. Lugo, su hermano gemelo, es un joven esnobista y veleidoso: se halla portentosamente atraido por el oro, el poder y las feminas. Aurelia es una hermosa mujer, poseedora de un sutil sortilegio y una sensualidad arrobadora, que no ostenta creencias religiosas ni profesa sentimientos morales. A traves de los siglos, la manifestacion del pensamiento ilustrado ha padecido ferreas e injustas inhibiciones; sus artifices sucumbieron inexorablemente bajo la ferula de...

Darkly handsome doctor Sir Dominic Chiara raised female pulses everywhere he went. But few admirers guessed at the torment behind his coolly assessing gaze. Nick's son had stopped speaking – and Nick, who had been knighted for his invaluable service to the royal family, did not know why. Until a beautiful new nanny offered hope.... Children's therapist Sarah Hunter answered a royal summons to help Dr. Chiara and his son. But her cover as the nanny was soon blown away by her discovery that the child had witnessed a murder – and by her attraction to his father. Falling in love with a man...