"Todos tenemos nuestros recuerdos; la guitarra todavía cantaba... " Esta colección de veintinueve historias de ciencia ficción son en ocasiones conmovedoras, en ocasiones graciosas y llaman a la reflexión. Cada comienzo acunado en la comodidad de lo familiar, pero que lleva a los lectores por un sendero serpenteante a lo inesperado. Sirviendo como emotivos recordatorios de la naturaleza efímera de la vida y la muerte, estas historias encapsulan...

Este maravilloso libro de Jaleta Clegg comprende cuentos de ciencia ficción y fantasía que intrigarán al más imaginativo lector y fascinarán a los amantes del género. Con personajes entrañables y discusiones sobre la moralidad, el poder, el amor y el conocimiento, es una lectura amena e interesante.

Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurri̤ un asesinato desconcertante 27 ąos atr̀s, con la determinaci̤n de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Rom̀n, s̤lo unas horas despǔs de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intenci̤n de matar...

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind, Comala, Rulfo set his classic novel Pedro Paramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed--Susana...

In order to ensure her popularity, Camilia Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.

"From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation)"-- Provided by publisher.

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...

"When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel."-- (source of summary not specified)

House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogota's exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give the perfect massage. Her clients confide in her, and she knows all about them. Their breast implants, their weekends in Miami, their divorces and affairs. Karen has problems of her own. She's in trouble, and she needs money. More money than she can make at House...

Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana, acting as part therapist, part confessor as Susana reveals the gripping account of her strange sexual urges and the one man who can satisfy them. But is Susana telling the truth?