In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Flore...more
"Skillfully evokes both the terror of daily life under military rule and the subtler forms of resistance in the hidden corners . . . She can just as deftly depict loving tenderness as convey the high fire of eroticism."--New York Times Book Review
Es un relato de prodigiosa intensidad y concision, en el que la esperanza y el honor de su protagonista se encarnan en un gallo tan famelico como su amo, el viejo coronel dispuesto a comer excrementos hasta que sea reparada la injusticia de que ha sido objeto.
Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter prepares for a co...more
For those interested in South American literature, this is a "tour-de-force". Clever and gripping from beginning to end, "El Tunel" reveals how an intelligent and educated man can be driven to insanity and even crime by his own doubts and the obsessive drive for the love of a woman.