Bereft. Life is a Story - story.one

This collection of stories was out of print but is now returned to its rightful place of horror among the most outstanding fictional accounts of Spanish Civil War, told here not in fighting o the battlefield but in the shark terror of daily life, cold night sweats, desperate one-night stands, hunger, loyalty and betrayal...and death.

When Lany, the daughter of a prosperous Colombian family, is kidnapped and remains in captivity, she becomes a member of a violent drug gang and a lover of women who cannot escape the consequences of her past no matter where she goes.

In her 1999 novel, - Una mujer de fin de siglo-, Maria Rosa Lojo evokes the decades that followed Rosas' dictatorship of Argentina (1829-1952), when the country began to move toward modernity, impelled by the ideology and aspirations of its new leaders. The protagonist of the novel, the writer Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia, was Rosas' niece, and the sister of Lucio V. Mansilla, the author of the well-known -Una excursion a los indios ranqueles-. Eduarda Mansilla's husband, Manuel Rafael Garcia, a career diplomat, was a member of the victorious anti-Rosas party. Lojo's novel features the drama of ...

Un descubrimiento arqueológico macabro datando de la conquista de México saca a luz un misterio inquietante que causa que un grupo de científicos descubra un secreto que podría cambiar fundamentalmente el concepto del rol de la Iglesia en la historia de las Américas.