En esta vida y en la otra

You propably didn't think there was a medicine to make you not cry. Well, neither die Mar. Why don't you come and discover it with her?

An iguana named Bemberecua lived near the village of Tlacotalpan by the Papaloapan river, where life was very tranquil, but when Bemberecua heard the marvelous music of the fandango, she discovered that she loved to dance more than anything else in the world, even though her claws kept destroying the villager's dance floor where Bemberecua secretly danced each night.

A young Guatemalan girl searches for the family she was stolen from eight years earlier. She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them.

Así como hay vidas que merecen ser contadas, lo mismo ocurre con ciertas muertes; muertes como las que sobrevuelan, amenazantes, los cuatro relatos de este libro. Jueces despiadados, cajas misteriosas, recuerdos profanados y asesinos seriales comparten estas páginas con finales inesperados. Guillermo Barrantes desafía a los lectores una vez más. Los desafía a hurgar en las tinieblas que habitan bajo la túnica tan temida. Los desafía a reflejarse en la hoja de la guadaña más filosa, para que los miedos de todos ellos den vida una vez más a la Muerte.