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Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

Set in the outskirts of Madrid, the action of this fragmentary, autobiographical novel takes place as much in the recession-plagued Spanish capital as it does within the narrator’s own head. Though nominally about the protagonist’s drive to create a movie with the aid of dreamers and idealists similar to himself, the book has larger aspirations; it seeks to make a point about the process of creation itself, and specifically the creation of cinema, and vividly, poignantly portrays the blunders and the sense of loss of post-adolescence, but also its fleeting glories and eternal promises of...

Una nueva y apasionante novela de Fabiola Arellano. Secretos, misterios, terror, angustia en un thriller en el que al final Julia descubrirá, entre otras cosas, el amor. El miedo es cristal líquido que entra por los ojos, se cuela por las venas, te desgarra las entrañas y activa tu cerebro en modo ficción. La vida de Julia, una mujer de treinta y tantos, se complica de la noche a la mañana. Descubrir que es adoptada, enfrentar la muerte de los que creía sus padres y enterarse de que se ha convertido en heredera de una tía que, hasta entonces, desconocía la tiene desbordada. La Camelia ...

Jason Steadman, un ejecutivo de ventas de una gran empresa de electrónica, es un tipo ingenioso y carismático al que aprecian mucho en la oficina. Sin embargo, tiene un único problema en su trabajo: carece del instinto asesino necesario para...