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La belleza velada es una novela sobre el gradual redescubrimiento de un hombre después de su muerte.

The great geoengineering projects have failed. The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice. Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of its population. She's been a convict, a corrections officer in a labour camp, and consort to a criminal, and now, out of desperation, she has...

Vivir con la familia de su difunto esposo era muy incómodo para la joven Annabella St Auby, pero encontrarse con sir William Weston la dejó sin aliento, ya que él le había dejado muy claro el interés que sentía por ella, y con la misma claridad sabía Annabella que se sentía atraída por él. Pero enseguida le asaltaron las dudas: el interés de sir William, ¿tendría que ver con su persona, o con su herencia?

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...