Resultados para "Vigilante" en Narrativa literaria

Ese lugar entre el sueño y la vigilia es el espacio donde queda la esencia de los sueños, ese sitio invisible salvo cuando a estamos punto despertar, pero aún permanecemos ligeramente dormidos y donde como en una red, quedan irremisiblemente atrapados nuestros anhelos a pesar de sujetarlos con las manos para llevarlos con nosotros. Pero igual que con los hermosos sueños, sucede con nuestras pesadillas cuando son ellas las que se nos aferran con la intención de no dejarnos escapar.

Aquí nos encontraremos con un conjunto de relatos, ficciones oscuras que nos mostrarán histórias imposibles...

En Raimon escriu contes per a la ràdio i viu amb el seu germà Blai, que va quedar trastocat per un accident en un bosc quan era petit i ara porta una vida senzilla treballant en un taller ocupacional. Un dia en Rai rep un encàrrec estrany, una dona gran que sempre escolta els seus relats, la Cèlia, vol contractar-lo perquè li escrigui la seva biografia: «Mai no hauria imaginat que els teus contes explicarien tan bé la meva vida».

La primera colección de cuentos de Félix J. Palma ya nos muestra los signos principales del estilo del autor: la prosa sensible y poética, el profundo conocimiento de las realidades del alma, la aproximación lateral a los grandes temas de la humanidad, un coqueteo con el fantástico y un fino sentido del humor. En ella encontraremos personas contratadas para vigilar salamandras, poetas que venden los besos de sus prometidas, infidelidades que transforman la realidad y hombres que intercambian su reflejo.

Una mujer con mellizos recién nacidos y un matrimonio fracturado revisita un pasado en el que confluyen los recuerdos de su hermano enfermizo, las pescas milagrosas de grupos armados en el Caribe y el inicio de su menstruación en una casa en donde su conexión más honesta es con la empleada de servicio.

Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful 30 hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions.

From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Three Junes comes "an engrossing, richly drawn and exquisitely told story of small-town residents grappling with the difficulties of changing times" (People). “Full of secrets and surprises...A must-read.” —J. Courtney Sullivan...

A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for two decades, may actually be alive. As she begins to track down the man she believes he might be, she finds herself in the grip of a troubling past she thought she had come to terms with. In her search through the tangles of truth and illusion, memory and dream, she questions her roles as lover, mother, artist, and mourner of the dead.

One secret could destroy a family. One lie could save them. The brilliant prequel to The Boy Who Saw, a gripping thriller from Sunday Times best seller Simon Toyne, featuring the enigmatic Solomon Creed. Solomon Creed is an outsider with an unknown past, travelling through a remote part of Texas. He doesn’t look for trouble - but trouble finds him. At a roadside diner, he runs into a worn-down family whose ancestral land and home is about to be auctioned. But when Solomon suspects it’s worth a lot more than they think, he decides to take things into his own hands.

For the women of the Sisterhood, planning a lavish reception for their longtime ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, at their lux mountain retreat is the ideal way to unwind after their latest successful mission. The only cloud over the happy occasion is that their mentor, Charles, is still mysteriously absent. But amid the friendly bickering about floral arrangements, cake tiers, and wedding favors, the ladies of Pinewood receive a frantic phone call....

The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the unspeakable violence.

“World-class nail-biter . . . [Allison] Brennan is in the groove with this one.”—Lee Child Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime...