Pasando el rato en un país cálido

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...

Cuatro mujeres, cuatro generaciones. La bisabuela Webster, guardiana de la «corrección» de la familia, recluida en una casa fría y silenciosa cerca del mar, que nunca ve: siempre ha estado orgullosa del «mero hecho de existir sin que nada le gustase». Su hija, la abuela Dunmartin, recluida también, aunque sin orgullo, en una colosal casa solariega en el norte de Irlanda, castigada por la lluvia y un demencial gobierno doméstico: entre sus proezas se cuenta haber intentado matar a uno de sus nietos el día de su bautizo. Su hija, la tía Lavinia, una belleza londinense, vive en el polo ...

El senor de Sillmarem, y los legendarios Delphinasills, se aproximan a Ravalione para asi, proteger a la actual regente del Imperio, comprobando cuan imprevisibles pueden llegar a ser los lances del destino...

DIVDIVHow do you share the soundtrack of your life?/div Just out of grad school, Laney is ready to embark on a new phase of her life. Leaving California to head back east, she’s got three thousand miles to reflect on her past before moving ahead to the future. With a box of mixed tapes at the ready, she envisions a trip spent reminiscing about first crushes, high school, family issues, and college loves and losses—her most precious memories. What she doesn’t picture is her mother in the seat beside her—which is exactly what happens when her mom invites herself along for the ride....