Juegos de empeño y rendición

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. ...

Tras dieciocho años de exilio voluntario en Canadá, Edgardo Vega se ve obligado a regresar a El Salvador para acudir al entierro de su madre. Ya el viaje, «una espeluznante travesía», se le hace insoportable, y sus compatriotas, que le resultan repulsivos, provocan en él una ansiedad que no le abandonará hasta que se marche del país. Todo esto se lo cuenta de manera torrencial a Moya, antiguo compañero de colegio con quien, durante su estancia, sale a tomar unas copas y quien, posteriormente, reproducirá el brutal monólogo de Edgardo Vega. En efecto, Vega, que siente un profundo...

Viaje al mundo subterráneo is one of the happiest satirical utopias in literature. The novel describes the journey of Niels Klim, who, like Alice, falls through a hole in the Earth and discovers that the interior of the Earth is a hollow space, with a central sun and small planets that orbit it. Captured by a dragon, he ends up on one of the planets, Nazar, and there he discovers the utopian civilization of the Potuans who, as a distorting mirror, serves to elaborate one of the fiercest satires on the human condition.

Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep...