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In this book of essays that at times points out essential details, and at times details them, runs over them, and returns to give us a full view of of two great literary constructions, Ignacio Padilla invites us to reevaluate the chief contributions of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Addressing five rare angles, one of the best Mexican writers of the “Crack” generation studies with passion, knowledge, and an enormous... - Read more

In 1974, Miguel Vernier, employee at a printing press is fired for printing a political leaflet. Afterwards he accepts a job as caretaker of a large expanse of sand lost in the eastern part of the country. The strange and magical surroundings of that place, the monotony of the sand banks, the near-by village, and the exasperating backdrop of the dictatorship, are good ingredients for the intrigue, drama and madness to take over the plot. The... - Read more

Lola MacHor receives an unusual SMS from Juan Iturri, Interpol inspector in Lyon. It’s only two enigmatic references, but her instinct tells her that he is in trouble. Meanwhile, a letter with the seal of the terrorist organization arrives at the Government’s Presidency, claiming responsibility for Iturri’s kidnapping.  Along with their requirements, they announce his death in a week’s time if their demands are not... - Read more

“One can classify pains much in the same way seismologists do: in a numeric scale that measures the inventory of the damage done. At 5, the Richter scale declares that it must be possible to see the quakes’ effects on walls in the forms of cracks or slight fissures. At 7, there is a danger of collapse. At 10, the event can be considered a cataclysm, which is none other than a telluric movement that modifies geography. The same... - Read more

Daniel Sempere is no longer that kid that discovered a single copy of “The Shadow of the Wind” in “The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books”. He is now a young man who still cannot remember his mother’s face, and who demands to know the truth. Like a watch’s mechanism, once again the spell of the tale takes us through the most fascinating of stories, in which all the characters of the saga appear with their truths... - Read more