El actor y la sombra

Un hombre es encontrado muerto en el interior de su galería de arte, Vincent Germano se verá obligado a nadar entre todas las hipótesis posibles. El Commissario tendrá que hacerse cargo de una investigación ensombrecida por la melancolía.

Estupenda novela de James Ward, actual de la serie de las actividades del MI7 de Reino Unido y la crueldad del Estado Islámico. El Detective Mordred lucha por salvar la vida de dos adolescentes que al parecer se escapan a Siria a formar parte de ISIS, con un final sorprendente.

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...

In the summer of 1936, the ship that carried the great writer Stefan Zweig to America stopped over at the port of Vigo. With the dramatic echoes of the Civil War resounding in the Galician atmosphere, the writer walked through the streets and stopped in front of the window of a small bookstore and met its owner, Ramón, a man who, like him, is aware of the value of Literature. That meeting will be the seed of a fleeting but valuable friendship.