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«Y todo el recorrido que en vida le había tocado hacer, se le representaba ahora como la letra y el ritmo de una canción íntima y enternecedora.»

A través de trece relatos electrizantes, la revista McSweeney's nos ofrece una selección de la mejor literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Esta antología, llevada a cabo por el autor brasileño Daniel Galera, toma como punto partida el género negro y criminal para acabar revelando un variopinto muestrario de la vida actual en Latinoamérica. Viajamos así a prisiones venezolanas secretas, a resorts uruguayos, a habitaciones empapadas de sangre en México y Perú, o a la casa de un transexual llamado Amy Winehouse en La Habana. En estas páginas encontramos algunas de las voces más...

"A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race ...

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...