El Libro de Gabriel

Full of disturbing scenes that blend the everyday with the fantastical, La Ciudad del Cangrejo is like a new One Thousand and One Nights, at once unmistakably Argentine and stubbornly universal. Carlos Santos Sáez combines the orality of popular stories with the search for new narrative forms in these utterly unclassifiable tales, collected for the first time.

Cara is a hybrid destined to bring an era Luna into the world and so, every alpha wants her dead because she can transform werewolves into new creatures... With demons coming to war on earth because they want her powers and even so she has been trained to be a warrior and love no one... She just found out that her mate is actually the mystical frozen alpha.

Contrapunto es posiblemente la novela más ambiciosa y lograda de Huxley y la que dio mayor fama internacional, pues en ella da forma literaria al contrapunto musical, alternando acciones simultáneas que avanzan en paralelo y demostrando que eso es posible y funciona en una novela. Se convierte así en la historia personal de muchos personajes que se entrecruzan. En cierto modo, la novela relata la trayectoria vital de Rampión, un personaje que comparte algunas características con el escritor D.H. Lawrence, pero se tratra de una novela coral cuyo mayor mérito es ser fiel reflejo de una...

The work is preceded by a prologue which discusses the author, the importance of his novels & an analysis of the technical & stylistic aspects of the title. An excellent collection for your 20th century Spanish literature classes.