Novedades

O sí. Vete tú a saber. No las recordamos. O no queremos recordar. De todas formas, quizá encuentres algo conocido en uno de estos cuentos. O si no, siempre está la posibilidad de que le haya sucedido al amigo del vecino de tu primo. Eso siempre decimos. ¿O no?

I Am an Author is a tale of the extraordinary lengths to which one might go in pursuit of a dream. Laced with black humour, it will resonate with anyone who has sought recognition as a writer but also those who enjoy a fast-moving thriller with lots of twists and a killer punch line.

In these twelve new stories, Richard Bausch explores the passions of men and women facing unex­pected circumstances and the complications of modern life and love. In the novella “Donnaiolo,” for instance, the parents of a young divorcée who has returned from Italy and a failed marriage must deal with the completely different, and unappealing, person she has become. In “Isolation,” a happily married woman who has con­ceived an unexpected passion for another man learns, in lockdown during the pandemic, that this man—into whose life Bausch also gives us a window—has become ill with Covid.

Un edificio en el que todos los vecinos creen que se ha cometido un crimen y que el culpable se esconde entre ellos; un desempleado convertido por equivocación en gurú de la autoayuda; un psicópata dedicado a matar taxistas inescrupulosos; una abuela que confunde el sable láser del nieto con el vibrador de la hija; un escritor inédito decidido a vengarse de los jurados que lo hicieron renunciar a su vocación; un adolescente que recuenta con ironía la historia de amor de sus padres divorciados, incapaz de aceptar al nuevo pretendiente de la madre…

A Guadalupe le dan una segunda oportunidad. Fue asesinada apenas casada, por lo que no tuvo noche de bodas, ni luna de miel. Por ello, obtiene el regreso al mundo de los vivos, para realizar su obsesión: dejar de ser virgen. Si lo logra o no, se ve en la narración. Y hay que leerla para enterarse.

When Luca drops out of his prestigious PhD programme and moves back home to Manchester, he thinks he'll take some time to consider his life choices: the failed love affair that ended in a disastrous holiday and embarrassing exit, the pursuit of an academic life that gave him nothing but a strong sense of failure. In need of money, and still convinced the literary life might be for him, Luca takes on a job as a ghost writer: Andy, who has progressive MS, wants Luca to write his life story.