"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...

En estos diez relatos insuperables hay variantes para todos los paladares de lectura: rituales públicos y privados, pesadillas que surgen a plena luz del día, cruces imperceptibles entre la realidad y la imaginación, humor, violencia y melancolía. Desde la exquisita ambigüedad de ±Orientación de los gatos» a la perfecta construcción lógica de ±Anillo de Moebius», desfilan los temas que Cortázar ha sabido, como pocos, convertir en literatura...

"Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora, por primera vez, se reunen en este volumen todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados mas influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental. El universo borgiano, con sus espejos, laberintos, tigres, bibliotecas, gauchos, o mascaras, es ya uno de los paisajes fundamentales del siglo XX. En este libro se encuentran obras maestras como El jardín...

"Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, Stanly Kubrick, Neil Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian priests and Russian cosmonauts all make an appearance ... Using his unique and keenly observant voice, Sagasti transforms the accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation; an extraordinary sight for the reader" -- Back cover.

An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.

Lucas Pereyra, a writer recently in his early fourties, travels from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to collect money sent to him from abroad and that he cannot receive in his country due to exchange restrictions. Married and with a child, he is not going through his best moments, but the prospect of spending a day in another country in the company of a young friend is enough to encourage him a little. Once in Uruguay, things do not go as planned, so Lucas...

Diosa, reina, sęora, madre, benefactora, ̀rbitro de la moda y modelo nacional de comportamiento. Santa Evita para unos y para otros una analfabeta resentida, trepadora, loca y ordinaria, presidenta de una dictadura de mendigos. El protagonista de esta novela es el cuerpo de Eva Duarte de Per̤n, una belleza en vida y una hermosura eťrea de 1,25 m despǔs del trabajo del embalsamador espąol Pedro Ara. Un cuerpo del que se hicieron varias copias...