LETRAS

Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, The Last Man (1826) is the first end-of-mankind novel, an early work of climate fiction, and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, the book tells of a deadly pandemic that leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world that’s devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature. But rather than give in to despair, Shelley uses the now-ubiquitous end-times plot to imagine a new world where freshly-formed communities and alternative ways of being stand in for self-important politicians serving corrupt institutions, and where nature reigns mightily over humanity—a timely message for our current era of climate collapse and political upheaval. Brimming with political intrigue and love triangles around characters based on Percy Shelley and scandal-dogged poet Lord Byron, the novel also broaches partisan dysfunction, imperial warfare, refugee crises, and economic collapse—and brings the legacy of her radically progressive parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, to bear on present-day questions about making a better world less centered around “man.” Shelley’s second major novel after Frankenstein, The Last Man casts a half-skeptical eye on romantic ideals of utopian perfection and natural plenitude while looking ahead to a greener future in which our species develops new relationships with non-human life and the planet.

Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader and her lover, a secret that if spilled could spell Grace’s own end she will do anything in her power to track down the traitor. But there’s more at stake than revenge: it was one of their own, a witch, that betrayed them, and Grace isn’t the only one looking for her. King Henry VIII has sent witchfinders after them, and they’re organized like they’ve never been before under his new advisor, the impassioned Sir Ambrose Fulke, a cold man blinded by his faith. His cruel reign could mean the end of witchkind itself. If Grace wants to find her revenge and live, she will have to do more than disappear.

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.

On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is home to a multitude of ghosts. Yet there’s a strange beauty in the austere architecture and the eerie, bloody waters of Loch na Scáthanna, the Lake of Shadows. Beguiled by a frightened ghost who gazes longingly out of the castle’s windows, Edie and Neve are drawn to the legends shrouding the island and the mystery of the Maundrell Red—a priceless diamond that disappeared decades before. Is the gem really cursed, and the cause of the family tragedies that have all occurred on Samhain—Scottish Halloween? As Samhain approaches once more, Edie and Neve race to peel back the dark secrets entwining the living and the dead—a twisted story of bitter cruelty and hidden love—or they will become another Maundrell tragedy trapped in the lonely hours . . .

Ella es una joven gitana que huye de su familia para escapar de un matrimonio concertado; el, un relojero que acampa en la frontera y la acoge en su tienda. El encuentro inaugura un entendimiento hecho de diálogos nocturnos, un intercambio de saberes y visiones: ella, que cree en el destino, en las señales, en el dios de las cosas; el, que se siente un engranaje de la máquina del mundo y que interpreta ese mundo según las reglas del juego del Mikado, como si jugar fuera una forma de poner orden en el caos. Un entendimiento que durará toda una vida, incluso en la distancia, y que tendrá consecuencias que reverberarán a lo largo del tiempo: ambos tomarán decisiones inevitables que cambiarán el destino del otro.

Despues de tres decadas de compartir el mismo techo, Pan abandona el hogar materno y decide revelarle al mundo la verdad. Hijo adoptivo de Emilia Mayer, una renombrada escritora, el joven fue en realidad "comprado" y se convirtió en la víctima de una relación enfermiza con la que decía ser su madre. Tras el escándalo, y para tratar de recuperarlo, Emilia escribe su última y mejor novela bajo el nombre de Pan, la cual la llevará definitivamente a la ruina o a su consagración.á Una aspirante al Nobel, un joven hecho añicos, un hombre que sufre de impotencia y una editora con problemas en la cama son el elenco de Los impotentes, una novela sobre las perversas interpretaciones del amor y la cultura de la cancelación que se pregunta hasta dónde es posible separar al artista de su obra.á Colaborador habitual de Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone ganó el Oscar al mejor guion original por Birdman en 2014.