Mariano Sanchez Soler

Como escribio Balzac, detras de cada gran fortuna siempre aparece un crimen? Fierro, un especialista en trabajos ilegales al servicio de la banca, prepara por encargo el crimen perfecto, planificado al detalle, en el que incluye la fabricacion de un culpable conveniente a los intereses financieros que le han contratado: el asesinato de los marqueses de Urbina. El crimen, que tiene lugar mientras...

"A welcome volume of stories from Russia’s finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." ?Sam Sacks, Wall Street JournalThe first English-language collection of short stories by Russia's greatest contemporary author, Mikhail Shishkin, the only author to win all three of Russia's most prestigious literary awards.Often i...

Walpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright’s homeland. Erofeev’s dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the comic high-water mark of the Brezhnev era. Walpurgis Night dramatizes the outrageous trials of Lev Isakovich Gurevich, an alcoholic half-Jewish dissident poet confined by the state to a hospital for th...