El infierno musical

Author	Arthur Hailey
ISBN	0425176088

As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding...

Author	José Saramago
ISBN	0151010404

Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night,...

Author

Arthur Rimbaud

This is an interesting collection as it begins with some of his earliest known poems and moves right on through to when he gave up on writing shortly before he left to pursue his fortunes abroad. There is so much we don't know about the man and what he actually thought.

I think that is why Rimbaud...

Author	César Vallejo
ISBN	8437607310

Sermón sobre la muerte

Y, en fin, pasando luego al dominio de la muerte,
que actúa en escuadrón, previo corchete,
párrafo y llave, mano grande y diéresis,
¿a qué el pupitre asirio? ¿a qué el cristiano púlpito,
el intenso jalón del mueble vándalo
o, todavía...

Author	Ludvík Vaculík
ISBN	1934824348

A clerk at the State Bank begins to notice that something strange is going on— bank employees are stuffing their pockets with money every day, only to have it taken every evening by the security guards who search the employees and confiscate the cash. But, there’s a discrepancy between what is being...