Fred de Vries Books

Drieluik van verhalen rond een zelfde anekdote, spelend in een restaurant op Cuba.

Que si la han visto llorar, que si es hipertensa y diabética y que si fuma como un hombre desde que su marido la abandonó con un hijo y otro en camino. De esta forma la señora Bartra, la hermosa pelirroja, alimenta con su figura a las viejas cotillas... Que si vive con dos reales al día, que si su esposo es un subversivo y se ha marchado a pelear junto a los aliados o que si patatín y que si patatán... Y la Brigada Político Social, en esos tiempos de guerra cuando la justicia estaba al servicio de la policía y no la policia al servicio de la justicia

A lyrically written, sensual, and extraordinarily enjoyable novel in which a Renaissance anatomist's astonishing discovery forever changes the female erotic universe. In sixteenth-centruy Venice, celebrated physician Mateo Colombo finds himself behind bars at the behest of the Church authorities. His is a crime of disclosure, heinous and heretical in the Church's eyes, in that his research threatens to subvert the whole secular order of Renaissance society. Like his namesake Christopher Colombus, he has made a discovery of enormous significance for humankind. Whereas Colombus voyaged outward to explore the world and found the Americas, Mateo Colombo looked inward, across the mons veneris, and uncovered the clitoris. Based on historical fact, The Anatomist is an utterly fascinating excursion into Renaissance Italy, as evocative of time and place as the work of Umberto Eco, and reminiscent of the earthy sensuality of Gabriel Garc&#237a M&#225rquez. Perceptive and stirring, it ironically exposes not only the social hypocracies of the day, but also the prejudices and sexual taboos that may still be with us four hundred years later.

Biografie van de veroordeelde Zuid-Afrikaanse sportheld Oscar Pistorius en daarnaast een reconstructie van het leven in Zuid-Afrika na het einde van de apartheid.