American supermodel Lena Miles go to a paradise Mexican beach resort to celebrate her birthday along with her rockstar boyfriend and some friends, but she disappears all of a sudden. Now it's the turn for police detective Erendira Sandoval to solve the mystery. But just when the FBI gets involved to hurry up procedures, Erendira finds out the amount of Mexican anonymous women who have also vanished and tries to solve their cases as well.
Isabel Tierra Frías is still a young woman who has gone through all kinds of humiliations, until one day that she decides to set scores straight. Then she becomes what: a vigilante, a heroin, just a killer? Taking a comedy stand closer to comic-book stories, Macaria España deals with some of the most dramatic situations for women in Mexico with a good pinch of humour, which has brought her protagonist, Isabel Tierra Frías, as one of the deares characters in Mexican literature today
Amusing and bright revision and classification of the different types of book lovers (the bibliophile, the bibliopath, the biblio-rat, the bibiiovoyeur) and readers (the faithful, the monogamous, the promiscuous ones), as well as of their habits (reading in bed, in the bathroom, in the public transport, underlining, marking, bending pages), lending and borrowing, etc.
In 1993, journalist Santiago Moreno investigates a series of similar murders in Chiapas, in the South of Mexico, when he finds a new one that does not fit in with the patern. Following the lead, he is sent to the jungle where he finds groups of indigenous people protesting and organizing themselves. Step by step the plot goes knitting both stories into one, and towards the end we see the emergence of the Zapatista movement, on January 1st 1994.
Biographical sketches of 27 women writers who achieved literary acclaim despite their tragic lives. Beautifully written, each sketch is told with richness in literary techniques in a way that they become masterful short stories, by a writer who has won several awards for her literary works.
Helena Terreros is a renowned police woman detective especialized in crimes against women.Faced with the kidndapping of Paloma, an 11-year-old girl, Paloma deals with forgotten episodes of her childhood as well as with the broken social fabric in Mexico that allows terrible crimes to happen and to go unpunished.
The author spent 15 years in prison. She interviewed most of her inmates about the crimes for which they were imprisoned for, selected the best stories, and narrated them as brilliant true crime stories told during their everyday life of imprisonment. At the same time, she shows how commiting a crime was the only way to escape from an oppresing living conditions. Every story dives into the human condition and its social restrains, in magnificent story-telling techniques not exent of a sour sense of humour.
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