El leproso

Six short stories of Guatemala by the prestigious, prize-winning national author (Antigua, 1956). The "tercer patio" refers to a figurative place where dissident survivors of the 1954 coup cautiously hid their beliefs and feelings about political events.

Un amor que se termina y un misterio que comienza en forma de caja de palisandro... Vuelve Ana E. Guevara con esta apasionante novela. Esta historia bien podría ser una historia de amor, pero no como esas novelas románticas que devoraba en el sofá de su casa con una manta de cuadros sobre los pies. Una historia ambientada en el Londres victoriano donde un importante noble se enamoraba de una plebeya de mente despierta y lengua ágil. No, esta historia no se va a parecer en nada a esas novelas. No hay Londres victoriano, ni lord, por no haber no hay ni una plebeya salida de Whitechapel,...

I was warned about Tristan Cole. "Stay away from him," people said. "He's cruel." "He's cold." "He's damaged." It's easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster. But I couldn't do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him because it also lived inside of me. We were both empty. We were both looking for something else. Something more. We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays. Then perhaps we could finally remember how to breathe.

Compatibles. Emilia Pardo Bazán Fragmento de la obra El criado entró con una bandejilla, y en ella una tarjeta. —¡Ah! ¿Este señor? Que pase. Tres minutos después, el visitante se inclinaba ante Irene. Pero ella, irónica y afectuosa, le rió con los ojos: —Nada de cumplidos. Creo que nos conocemos bastante, perdulario. Era él un hombre aún joven, como de treinta y seis a treinta y ocho años, con ligeros toques de blanco en la oscura cabellera, peinada a la última moda, de un modo sobrio y recogido. El cuerpo gallardo, la cara simpática, morena y expresiva, sin hacer del...

Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks–forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected–and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France’s ever bolder sorties.