Pending past and more conversational stories
SHORT STORIES, 2010
What do two friends do when they meet in a crowded airport during a layover? What does a discreet widow do when she finds out that a ghost has appeared in her new neighbour’s home? What...
NOVEL, 2001
“I was a man of five women,” says the historian Justo Adriano Alemán to his young confidant, the narrator of this novel. His words open up an evocative world of secrets:...
NOVEL, 1999
The Brilliance of Wood is the story of Casares, a poor Mexican who listened to his mother and chose to study and embark upon a professional career to escape from poverty and ignorance...
NOVEL, 1988
Mariana, the narrator of this novel, is a Duchess who spends her early years in France among valets, butlers and monogrammed crockery. This charmed existence comes to an abrupt end with the advent...
NOVEL, 2014
The bird seller is the only passenger on the train to get off in Desolación. “The place is so sad, barren and neglected that not even the vultures circle it.” The...
SHORT STORIES, 2013.
What happens when monstrous things hide behind an innocuous mask; when the triumph of some becomes the failure of others; when one day we don’t recognize ourselves in the mirror? What would...
Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late
SHORT STORIES, 2011
A universe of mathematical precision from which goodness has disappeared and violence relieves the unpredictable continuity of existence. In a world where dreams and reality merge and split...
SHORT STORIES, 2006
Las islas (The Islands) is a collection of eight stories set in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stories are full of characters who live in the favelas scattered around the city's...
NOVEL, 1985
Dying in the Gulf provides the setting for a mortal feud. On one side is the beautiful but perverse Anabela Guillaumin and her husband, the extravagant politician Francisco Rojano. On...
NOVEL, 1998
In 20 th Century Recuay, a woman must confront the ghosts of her memory, trapped between conventionalism and her powerful imagination. The absence of her parents, the premature death of her...
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