Favoritos De Manuel Jabois

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to try and stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías' A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. ("My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white"—Shakespeare's Macbeth.)

Barcelona. 24 cm. 186 páginas. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'LITERATURAS'. Jabois, Manuel 1978-. Malaherba. Ficción moderna y contemporánea. Novelas .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 9788420438375; 9788420438368; 9788466353380

With content previously suppressed by Franco's government, On a Bender (A Esmorga) is the retelling of a fateful few days in the life of a raucous group of Galician men hellbent on a drinking session. On a Bender is a legendary piece of Galician writing, and when it first appeared helped to consolidate Galician prose during a crucial period of cultural struggle and linguistic resistance to Spain. Ostensibly set toward the end of the nineteenth century, its confessional style and subtle evocation of repressive authority leaves the reader in no doubt as to its implicit criticism of the Franco regime. The term esmorga in Galician refers to a prolonged bout of drinking and mayhem, and the novel centres on three friends on one such extended and peripatetic binge which culminates in tragedy. The main characters are all marginalised in some way, and the novel s impact and resonance lies in its stark and unflinching gaze upon violence, sexuality, illness (both physical and mental), and extremes of human behaviour. On a Bender is the first translation of A Esmorga into English and the first translation of the newly-restored version into any language.

Six year-old Elvis tries to understand the unreasonable grownups around him and determines to follow his own inclinations despite their constant interference.