Crónicas del Mago Rojo I: Una Chispa En La Oscuridad

Lo maravilloso tiene su propia historia, que está atada a otras pasiones como el horror y la curiosidad.

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...

Érase una vez un hombre que quería convencer a su hijo de las ventajas de estudiar en la Universidad de Harvard. Y le contó una especie de fábula; la historia de su paso por el campus; en realidad, lo que le sucedió un caluroso verano, allá en los años setenta, mientras se preparaba para los exámenes finales del curso de doctorado. Cierto día se le ocurrió entrar en un cafetín de ambiente afrofrancés y allí se topó con un personaje realmente singular, un tunecino extravagante, vestido como el Che Guevara, que estaba esperando que le concedieran el permiso de residencia,...