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En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, sólo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas. En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas d...

"Friday Night Chicas" is a collection of four flirty novellas. Set in New York City, Miami's South Beach, downtown Chicago, and L.A., these stories explore dating, marriage, friendship, and sex, through the eyes of four different Latina women. "Friday Night in L.A" by Mary Castillo. Isela Harris, with an invitation to the hottest charity event in-hand, is determined to meet director extraordinaire Tyler Baxter. "Friday Night in South Beach" by Caridad Peneiro. It's Tori Rodriguez's thirtieth bir...

Lucky Girls is a collection of five stories, set in India and Southeast Asia, narrated by young women who find themselves face to face with the compelling circumstances of adult love. Living in unfamiliar places, according to new and often frightening rules, these characters become vulnerable in unexpected ways-and learn, as a result, to articulate the romantic attraction to landscapes and cultures that are strange to them. In `Lucky Girls,' an American woman who has been involved in five-year a...

From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories at once brutal and intensely lyrical are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed. At the same time they can be read as metaphors for the terror and oppression of years of warfare. "The Beggar's Knife was originally subtitled '24 strange tales' in the English tran...

The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories - of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions - and the physical indignities of aging. For all of them, successful careers, personal revelations, and Zen serenity are out of the question, blocked by a seemingly insurmountable wall of frustrations. Orbiting around them are a priest questioning his vocation and a cast of complicated women, neglected and embattled...

From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision). “1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to p...

Winner of the prestigious Premio Planeta, Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World is a pulse-pounding international political thriller about sex, power, and information - and the extreme lengths people go to attain them.

The story of a lifetime told in the eye of a hurricane.Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money—she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora—and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell a story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history, is bearing...