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Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada, Byron José Sun
Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada, Byron José Sun
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Roboton, Jupa and Calicas have just been drafted by the city of La Limonada to petrol, to rob, to intimidate, to extort, to kill and when necessary to protect those citizens that need it; as their crime spree progresses their tactics and abilities improve shaping them into criminal machines. The three new criminals will be tasked with the reality of destroying people's lives in order to insure La Limonada maintains its dominion over every citizen by controlling every aspect of their past, present and future. Many of those citizens are clueless on how they are controlled; it isn't until their …
Todas Las Muertes De Lázaro, Diego Murcia
Todas Las Muertes De Lázaro, Diego Murcia
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TODAS LAS MUERTES DE LÁZARO es una novela negra que habla de corrupción, ansias de poder, ambición y decepción. En este libro, el tema de la muerte es una excusa para hablar de todo un país, El Salvador, y sus contradicciones a través del cinismo, el humor y el escepticismo. Su personaje principal, El Pítbul, es una representación del desamparo generalizado que el ciudadano común tiene de las instituciones del Estado. Este detective se embarca -por orden presidencial- en una búsqueda misteriosa que le requiere dar con un amo del disfraz. A medida que el investigador se interna en los …
A Son Of Mercy, Un Hijo De Misericordia, Carlos Fidel Espinoza
A Son Of Mercy, Un Hijo De Misericordia, Carlos Fidel Espinoza
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A Son of Mercy is a novella that follows Charlie Cantero as he struggles to find his role in the Cantero family after the death of the family's patriarch, Braulio "Pepper" Cantero. A Son of Mercy is set along the El Paso/Juarez border and deals with issues of language, racism and sexuality.
En Los Ojos, El Vacío, Camilo Castillo-Rojas
En Los Ojos, El Vacío, Camilo Castillo-Rojas
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En los ojos, el vacío is a fiction novel.
Is the story of two men, Antonio Valbuena and Leandro Cubillos, who make a journey to their old town, localized at the countryside. There they have to collect the remains of one corpse, Antonio's son, who was murdered by an illegal armed group.