La memoria del agua

Alexis has a secret about her-...er, himself. Well, it's not really a secret-at least not outwardly-but it hasn't been expressedaloud to anyone else, except the therapist. He hasn't told anyone yet, but plans on telling Sofía first, mostlybecause she lives thousands of miles away in Buenos Aires. Alexis and Sofía have been pen pals since the 6th grade, and since they have never actually met IRL (in real life), Alexis feels more comfortable telling her first.Sofía, too, has just learned of a secret that her parents have been keeping from her, one that upends her life and changesthe way she...

On fait parfois de drôles de rencontres en Patagonie ; sur la route d'El Maiten, on peut croiser, par exemple, un type qui parcourt la pampa à la recherche d'un violon. On l'appelle El Tano, l'Italien.

A porn actor and actress escape their past lives in a black Chrysler Imperial along with the woman’s young daughter, driving beneath an inclement sun on a series of identical roads and past inhospitable landscapes. Each one of them narrates their flight to nowhere, but it is a fourth voice—that of a documentary filmmaker fascinated by this story—that communicates just how much of those three characters can exist within each person. In this magnetic novel the past is a nebulous territory from which there is no escape, and although the journey can turn the most impersonal...

El pequeño Bryan Shepard quería una madre y estaba dispuesto a conseguirla como fuera. De hecho, ya había decidido que su nueva vecina, Alexis Gordon, era perfecta para el papel. Solo le quedaba convencer a su padre de que también sería la esposa perfecta... Judd Shepard comprendía la atracción que su hijo sentía por Alexis, pero, como estaba convencido de que ella solo interpretaba el papel de madre para conseguir un ascenso en su carrera, le dijo que se alejara de ella. El niño no solo le desobedeció, sino que consiguió engañarlo para que acabase pidiéndole una cita a Alexis....