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A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder...
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An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the girl from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de...
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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"In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts, a private school where students disappear and girls give birth to strange creatures. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads to a job offer and launches an inner conflict full of holes and missteps. Ultimately,...
7) En el lejero
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En un lugar donde la neblina y el aguacero libran una batalla a muerte, Jeremías busca sin tregua a su nieta. Pero toda amenaza con impedir el encuentro: la plaga de ratones muertos que inundan las calles, la inescrutable dueña del hotelucho donde se hospeda y su asistente enana, el albino siniestro que guarda un secreto, los niños que juegan fútbol con cabezas, la marea de monjas que vaticinan el horror. Llena de símbolos oníricos que resaltan...
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Alfaguara
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2013
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"Casablanca no es una ciudad, es una casa: blanca como su nombre lo indica, con puertas y ventanas de color café y una palmera en el centro de un antejardín verde. Y así ha sido siempre y así siempre será, incambiada, incambiable, como el loquito de arriba, el que dijo: "Yo soy el que soy". Yo también. Yo soy el que soy''--Page [4] of cover.
The rain falls on Casablanca in violent greatness. As if guided by the hand of my lord Satan, water...
10) Satanás
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Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2002
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"Una mujer hermosa e ingenua que roba con destreza a altos ejecutivos, un pintor habitado por fuerzas misteriosas, y un sacerdote que se enfrenta a un caso de posesion demoniaca en La Candelaria, el barrio colonial de Bogota...historias que se tejen en torno a la de Campo Elias, heroe de la guerra de Vietnam, quien inicia su particular descenso a los infiernos obsesionado por la dualidad entre el bien y el mal, entre Jekyll y Hyde, y se convertira...
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Alfaguara
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2024.
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"La explosión de una bomba y la desaparición de un niño trenzarán de manera ineludible el drama de los protagonistas de El vacío en el que flotas, y entonces seremos testigos --en este juego de ficciones en el que una historia parece desarrollarse dentro de otra, como en un set de muñecas rusas-- de tres relatos que comparten un mismo personaje. En el primero, una joven pareja pierde a su hijo pequeño en un atentado terrorista: la madre sobrevive,...
12) Vampyr
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Grupo Editorial Norma
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2009
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In nineteenth-century Europe, teenager Martina investigates the secrets of vampires and puts her life in danger after realizing that Susana, a new student, is not normal and receiving letters from an unknown author which provide her with information about the girl's true nature.
13) Slash and burn
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And Other Stories
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2020.
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"Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with...
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