Amigas para Siempre

Inscribed in the rich fantastical tradition of Romanian literature while communing with other traditions, this book uses fantasy to denounce, in a covert manner, the grotesqueness of existence within a totalitarian state. The four stories included belong as much to fantastical literature as they do to testimony writing, the narrative combining as it does the confessional tone of a realistic journal with incursions from a visionary imagination. Rediscovered in 1977 after having been rejected by Romanian censorship due to its antisocial tendencies, this was the first book of short stories...

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....

Un secreto de familia celosamente guardado se descubre por fin gracias a la voluntad y el tesón de una joven escritora. Margaret, hija de un coleccionista de libros antiguos y escritora primeriza, acepta escribir la biografía de la misteriosa novelista Vida Winter, una mujer que, no obstante el éxito de sus libros, siempre ha rehuido el contacto con la prensa y ahora por fin ha elegido a Margaret para contar los hechos de su vida.

Mares, pantanos y lagunas cubren la mayor parte de la Tierra. El aumento de la temperatura ha propiciado un clima tropical, de manera que la flora y la fauna proliferan de forma extraordinaria y el mundo parece volver al Triásico. Los pocos humanos deben desplazarse en embarcaciones y sobrevivir con los escasos restos de la civilización que pueden encontrar en los pisos más altos de los rascacielos ahora sumergidos. Viven continuamente amenazados por animales, insectos y enfermedades, que ahora son difíciles de combatir. En este mundo, Kerans intenta sobrevivir, aunque en muchas veces...