Tomás González

A riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast. By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins Mario and Jose do not know how to cope with the hatred they feel for their father, an arrogant man whose pride seems to taint everything he touches. Over the course of a fateful fishing trip straight into the heart of a storm,...

"Grappling with his son's death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss. Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the deep shades of his loss. Despite his acute pain, or perhaps because of it, David observes beauty in the ordinary: in the resemblance of a woman to Egyptian portraits, in the horseshoe crabs that wash...

"Cuando a eso del mediodía por fin pudieron separarse y pensar en algo que no fuera el agobiante amor, y abrieron los postigos, al fondo estaban las montañas borradas por el agua, pues llovía en el mundo hasta donde alcanzaba la vista". Julia desapareció hace siete meses, después de abandonar a Raúl. Sólo quedan su recuerdo persistente, su presencia fantasmal y su voz... Raúl observa el paisaje y siente a Julia en los silencios. Su amor por...

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

A biography of the pioneer woman who, as a child, was captured and raised by the Comanche Indians.