She ran out of tears from the long mourning, retaining all of the pain inside of her, that same pain that oppressed her heart. Her swollen feet were bleeding after spending hours walking aimlessly. All of the tragedies that she experienced were revealed in a moment that lasted an eternity.In those moments, alone, vulnerable, and defeated, she watched the immense riverbed from the top of that bridge, watching it disappear between the soft hollows through the horizon.At that ...

A Sci Fi Novel about the Mayans and their view of the world.The Mayan Gods creators sent a messenger from space to a Quiche Maya community in Guatemala to engender virginal girls of quiche ethnies, and two children would be the messengers from the gods to deliver a message, a warning at the General Assembly Plenary of the United Nations to convey to the world that they have one last chance to save the planet.

It is the story of Ignacio and his life on a hacienda in Guatemala, and as the events of the past will be reflected in his future.

Behind every literary success was hidden a great secret. Marta’s goal was to find it. And for this purpose, she used her best weapons. Her feminine intuition, patience, tenacity, and curiosity, the accomplices of a woman’s very special wisdom.The novel “Secrets of the Cloth” brought its author, Margarito Cifontes, all the success he had hoped for. But the book hid the secret of his life. Until the day he met Marta, an elderly woman. She took it upon herself to discover the great se...

Description of the book "Shared Glory":This is the story of two great friends who are, at the same time, sworn enemies due to their existing rivalry to win the love of one woman.Gloria.She has always loved them both and now, being old, they decide to live a life of three.One woman and two husbands, all living below the same roof.So starts the fierce fight between Cleto and Lico to be the one and only true love of Gloria, resulting in useless extremes...

Once a month, the refinery workers of the Tropical Oil Company descend upon Tora, a city in the Colombian forest. They journey down from the mountains searching for earthly bliss and hoping to encounter Sayonara, the legendary Indian prostitute who rules their squalid paradise like a queen. Beautiful, exotic, and mysterious, Sayonara, the undisputed barrio angel, captivates whoever crosses her path. Then, one day, she violates the unwritten rules of her profession and falls in love with a ...

In "A Message to Garcia," Elbert Hubbard presents a compelling narrative that valorizes individual initiative and the relentless pursuit of duty. Set against the backdrop of the Spanish-American War, Hubbard recounts the tale of Lieutenant Andrew Rowan's mission to deliver a critical message to General Garcia in Cuba. Through a concise and powerful prose style, Hubbard emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility, self-reliance, and the willingness to act decisively without waiting...

A fearless and poetic final work by a legendary Latin American writer that masterfully blends history, social commentary, and personal ruminations to capture a brilliant mind at work, and a region in constant flux"More generous, wise, and wonderful than I dared hope." — Naomi Klein, author of DoppelgangerIn Hunter of Stories, master storyteller Eduardo Galeano brings his signature style to the histories and political conce...

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future.Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba.Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations, The House of the Spirits is a mag...

Having killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.HarperCollins bring...

Winner of the Cervantes PrizeCarlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods.Josué Nadal has lost more than his innocence: He has been robbed of his life—and his posthumous narration sets the tone for a brilliantly written novel that blends myst...