Angelo Morino Books

This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them spellbound.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltran works as a magazine journalist--a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist emigres. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team--and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice--and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them. Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, "Of Love and Shadows" is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist--and peopled with those who dare to challenge it.

El último libro periodístico publicado por Gabriel García Márquez fue Noticia de un secuestro , en el que se narra la historia de los secuestros de varias figuras de la política y la cultura de Colombia por el cartel de Medellín en 1991, uno de los años de mayor enfrentamiento entre el gobierno y el capo Pablo Escobar. Basado en una minuciosa investigación que incluyó entrevistas con cada uno de los implicados, Noticia de un secuestro fue, según García Márquez, uno de los libros más difíciles y dolorosos de toda su carrera por el estado de corrupción social y política que el narcotráfico había alcanzado a generar en la sociedad colombiana.

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence, since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

Set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18-century colonial Colombia, this is the story of Sierva Maria and the priest Cayetano Delaura, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction.

In this Nobel Prize-winning novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the vibrant life of young Marito in 1960s Lima, Peru. His world shifts with the arrival of his older aunt Julia, sparking a secret romance, and the eccentric scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose wild soap operas captivate the city. A masterful blend of humor and chaos.

'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination - as real for him as memories - he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.

Da un'antica tomba nel convento delle clarisse emerge una lunghissima chioma rossa. Da questo evento ha origine il romanzo, ambientato in una Cartagena de Indias perduta in un oscuro passato coloniale. Una bellissima bambina, un medico negromante e un giovane esorcista posseduto dal mal d'amore sono protagonisti di una passione innaturale e distruttiva. García Márquez dà vita a pagine di struggente poesia e di emozionato pudore e conduce il lettore in un universo capace di travolgere i sensi e i sentimenti in nome di una passione erotica che diventa malattia, metafora della letteratura e della vita.