La arpía de Roma

Una novela de misterio ambientada en Oviedo protagonizada por una investigadora de fraudes que despertará la empatía de los lectores

Jovel, serenata a la gente menuda is an essential novel in the literary canon of Chiapas, Mexico; not only for belonging to the historic novel genre, but also by bringing out important identity traits for the Chiapas population. The strategies for the composition of this fictional world follow very closely historical documents to relate the circumstances at the departure from the Iberian Peninsula in the XVI century of the Spanish group that colonized, founded and established itself in Ciudad Real de Chiapas (current San Cristobal de las Casas), as well as diverse circumstances of the...

This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades of armed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature...

En 2002, un hombre encuentra un viejo cuaderno en una habitación del antaño lujoso Africa Hotel, en la ciudad mozambiqueña de Beira; en la tapa lee un nombre y una fecha: «Hanna Lundmark, 1905», pero el cuaderno está escrito en una lengua que desconoce. En 1904, casi un siglo antes de este extraño hallazgo, una mujer del interior de Suecia desea para su primogénita, Hanna, una vida mejor, y decide enviarla a la casa de unos parientes que viven en la costa. Comienzan entonces las peripecias de esa intrépida joven: se enrola como cocinera en un barco rumbo a Australia, pero antes de...