El Operativo

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Ganador del eFestival de Palabras Premios a los Mejores Libros Electrónicos Independientes (eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards) - Mejor Novela Corta del 2014 Los fantasmas de antiguas miserias nunca están muy lejos... Abandonada por su novio en la víspera de Navidad, Cassie Baruch pensó que su dolor acabaría cuando estrelló su coche contra un árbol de haya antiguo. Pero cuando un hermoso ángel de alas negras aparece y le dice «esto no es ningún estúpido romance paranormal, niña», se da cuenta de que la muerte no ha resuelto sus problemas. ¿Podrá Jeremiel...

This is a satirical/historical novel of the life of a fictional Soviet era artist, Vladimir Daniilovich Myukis who was orphaned during the Second World War. By the early 1950s, Myukis now in a street gang of war orphans was arrested by the police for vandalism. The vandalism consisted of drawing large pictures of elephants on the bombed out buildings in hisw native city of Novogrudok in what is now Belarus. The arresting officers realized that Myukis had real art ability so they sent him to art school. From there he was recruited into the KGB where he forged signatures for their agents. He...

En este cuento, Stevenson explora una curiosa aparición demoníaca, que bien puede ser el resultado de la mente alucinada del protagonista, o quizás de su excesiva percepción. Vuelve a aparecer el tema del doble pero desde una perspectiva diferente. Pese a su brevedad, el texto contiene, como casi todos los suyos, la clave de un acuciante dilema o problema moral