?Como puede una novela cambiar el mundo? ?Todavia conservan los libros el poder de cambiar la realidad y a los hombres? Dos maestros de la literatura mundial contemporanea intentan responder a esta dificilisima pregunta revelando los secretos de su "taller de escritura". Invitando a Claudio Magris y a Mario Vargas Llosa a confrontar sus respectivas ideas sobre la literatura como "experiencia total", Renato Poma, director del Instituto Italiano de...

"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--

"Ambientada en un remoto pueblo de montaña, Lituma en los Andes comienza como una novela policíaca sobre la desaparición de tres lugareños. El cabo Lituma y su ayudante Tomás sospechan de Sendero Luminoso, la organización guerrillera que viene sembrando el terror en el Perú. Pero la intriga adquiere visos inesperados cuando se descubren crueles prácticas ancestrales en la zona, y la narración va ganando dimensiones conforme las pesquisas...

"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world -- especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon -- but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became...

A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...