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Desde su primera obra publicada, el volumen Los días enmascarados(1954), empezó a quedar claro que el autor es uno de los maestros contemporáneos del arte de escribir cuento. Esta obra incluye, entre otros, "Vieja moralidad", "Las dos Elenas", "Malintzin de las maquilas", "La sierva del padre" y "La línea de la vida". ENGLISH DESCRIPTION After his first work, Los días enmascarados, was published in 1954, it became clear to all that Carlos Fuentes is one of the contemporary masters in the art of short story writing. This volume includes, among other stories, "Vieja moralidad," "Las dos...

The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity “A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location....

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...

Son tan estrechas las calles que van del Strand al Embankment que no es conveniente que las parejas paseen por ellas cogidas del brazo. Haciéndolo, exponen a los empleadillos de tres al cuarto a meterse en los charcos, en su afán por adelantarles, o a recibir ellos un empujón u oír alguna frase, no siempre muy gramatical, de boca de las oficinistas en su apresurado camino. En las calles de Londres, la belleza pasa desapercibida, pero la excentricidad paga un elevado tributo. Es preferible que la estatura, porte y físico sean normales, con tendencia a lo vulgar; y en cuanto a la...