A Crack in the Wall - formato ePub

Los textos de no ficción de Claudia Piñeiro reunidos por primera vez en libro.«Sospecho que lo que escribo nace del silencio. Porque así fue desde mi niñez, del silencio a la escritura. De la resistencia...

Después de veinte años, una mujer vuelve a la Argentina. De vuelta en el suburbio donde ha vivido, deberá enfrentarse con los actores del drama que la hizo huir tanto como con su propia capacidad para...

La novela que consagró a Claudia Piñeiro y que presenta un cuadro implacable de la decadencia social de la Argentina del cambio de siglo.Detrás de las altas paredes perimetrales, más allá de los portones...

La novela más personal y entrañable de la aclamada escritora argentina Claudia Piñeiro, autora de Betibú y Las viudas de los jueves.En el verano de 1976 una niña "perspicaz, observadora e intuitiva" está...

Claudia Piñeiro capta con genialidad los tonos de las voces de la sociedad argentina. Y entre ellas la de un ama de casa dispuesta a todo con tal de conservar su matrimonio y las buenas apariencias.Un...

Una novela atrapante, en la que la autora de Las viudas de los jueves vuelve a desplegar todo su talento narrativo para contar la in vestigación de un crimen y trazar un retrato del país.La novela en...

¿Qué precio hay que pagar para dar una vuelta de timón y decidirse a vivir los propios sueños?La novela en que se basó la película homónima.La autora de Las viudas de los jueves demuestra una vez más...

Una adolescente aparece quemada y descuartizada en un descampado. Treinta años después, el crimen sigue sin aclararse y su familia y entorno se han desmoronado.Hace treinta años, en un terreno baldío...

Un relato que rompe el silencio y se pronuncia en alta voz sobre la libertad de elegir.Poco después de que Rita aparece muerta en la iglesia que suele frecuentar, la investigación se da por cerrada, y...

Un joven ingresa al mundo de la política por las razones equivocadas y debe afrontar las dramáticas consecuencias.«Alguien puede llegar a la política por muchos motivos. Unos más legítimos, otros menos....

El sorprendente nuevo libro de Claudia Piñeiro, un conjunto de relatos que, como breves escenas cotidianas, abordan situaciones en las que todos podemos sentirnos reconocidos. Este volumen reúne todos...

Un 31 de octubre, noche de brujas, Serafín, la bruja Amanda y Felipe posan su mirada sobre la misma estrella. Su brillo mágico hace que los destinos se crucen y se unan para siempre.A Serafín le encantan...

Seis piezas breves de teatro, tres comedias y tres dramas, escritas por una de las autoras más leídas en Argentina y en el mundo: Claudia Piñeiro.Este libro reúne las seis obras de teatro escritas por...

«Mujeres estafadas por un hombre hay muchas, pero repudiadas tanto por la madre como por la hija, no tantas.»El tiempo de las moscas es la nueva y esperada novela de Claudia Piñeiro, que retoma la historia...

Ocho escritores entrevistaron a ocho sobrevivientes de abuso sexual en la infancia y nos cuentan sus historias.¿Cómo se narra el abuso? ¿Cómo se rompe el secreto que el abusador impone con amenazas? ¿Cómo...

Praise for Claudia Piñeiro's Thursday Night Widows:"An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society."—José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature“A gripping story. The dystopia...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout Roumanian...

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thou-sand Confederate...

Unseen Genius follows the journey of Jabari, a young inventor with dreams bigger than his circumstances. In each installment, Jabari grapples with the challenges of balancing his family obligations, friendships,...

FIRE MOUNTAIN IS "A THRILLING SEA STORY BY "NORMAN SPRINGER", AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD SHIP" Years. Bright, aslant eyes, and a suave and ever-ready smile that broke immediately Martin met his gaze. "You...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This has got to be one of the most out loud funniest books I've read all year."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Any women that are going through menopause need to read this. Such a great book and it's laugh out loud funny." For...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual time of their...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...