Ladrón de cerezas

Pasando de chalán, utilero y asistente a alcanzar el estatus de director de culto, el Gato Vera y sus películas de zombis han crecido hasta convertirse en la némesis de Arturo Letrán, la gran gloria del cine mexicano. Sin embargo, la muerte de su mentor, el Animal Romo, obliga al Gato a hacer un alto y rememorar sus inicios en la industria, entre presupuestos raquíticos, guiones absurdos y rituales para atraer la suerte, pero también las envidias y los odios que bullen detrás de la competencia artística. Sórdida y profundamente mordaz, Ánima es "un largo y elaborado insulto hacia...

"When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up alongside the woman he loves. The next time he wakes, two years have passed and Jeremy is now a spectator of his own life. Victoria has given him a child, but the man alongside her is a cruel, egotistical, seemingly unknowable Jeremy. Is it amnesia? Insanity? Or has Jeremy been cursed for his selfish, destructive...

"La isla inaudita fue la primera novela, después de La verdad sobre el caso Savolta, que escribí enteramente en Barcelona, en la misma mesa, ante la misma ventana... Tal vez por esto es más introspectiva y más consciente del paso de las estaciones, de los cambios graduales de la luz." EDUARDO MENDOZA En una Venecia insólita, a la vez cotidiana e irreal, el prófugo viajero se sustrae a las férreas y sórdidas leyes de su rutina barcelonesa para ingresar en un paréntesis que de provisional parece llamado a convertirse en indefinido: una vida regida quizá por otra lógica secreta, hecha ...

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...