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Después de un día horrible en el que había perdido tanto su amante como su trabajo, Jamie creía haber encontrado su príncipe azul: guapo, joven, encantador, con dinero... pero pronto el amor se transforma en puro terror. el hombre de sus sueños, en apenas

“Fusilados”, segundo capítulo de Cartucho, está compuesto por veintiocho relatos breves en los que una niña cuenta los enfrentamientos y las muertes que ve pasar en Parral, Chihuahua. Los continuos combates, fusilamientos y ejecuciones provocan en la pequeña narradora cierta insensibilidad a la violencia y cierta fascinación por la muerte. El estilo ágil y directo de Nellie Campobello, cierto carácter autobiográfico y el tratamiento del tema revolucionario hacen de “Fusilados” una lectura indispensable.

Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10—Francois de Borbón-Vendôme, the prince of Martigues—finds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her savior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...