Crimen en Compostela

Imagina que no tuvieras sentido del olfato. Imagina que jamás te despertara el aroma del café recién hecho, ni el olor a quemado te hiciera salir corriendo de la ducha para rescatar el pan de la tostadora. Imagina que no pudieras percibir la fragancia de un bosque mediterráneo las tardes soleadas de mayo. Así es el mundo de las personas que sufren anosmia.

La vida es barata. Las ciudades estado de Zar y Perdition luchan entre sí por el control de una isla que las separa. Zar lucha por la libertad de todos, mientras que Perdition refuerza el status quo. El Director de Perdition ha enviado a su hijo menor, Ollie, en una misión especial a la ciudad enemiga de Zar para poner fin a la guerra. A Zorra, una hija de Zar, se le pide que haga el máximo sacrificio para traer la paz a la tierra. Antes de que se celebre un armisticio, golpea la muerte. ¿Podrán Zorra y Ollie superar sus diferencias y traer paz a sus ciudades? ¿Quién está involucrado...

It was a time of tense emotion. Each was a surge with an almost uncontrollable excitement as the two men moved up the whole length of the riffled sluice. Neither uttered one single word. But they moved slowly on either side of the long, primitive, box-like construction, keeping pace, each with the other, as though in a mutual desire that such fortune as was theirs should be witnessed together, as though neither had courage to face alone the possibilities of this their first serious "washing." At each riffle the men paused. The more emotional of the two, Len Stern, thrust out a hand and...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...