Showing results for "Dolores" in Literary Fiction

When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the case has already been quickly closed as a tragic accident. It’s also where Álvaro hid his secrets. The man to whom Manuel was married for fifteen years was not the unassuming man he knew.

GOLD MEDAL in Best Popular Fiction—International Latino Book Awards For fans of Rebecca Serle and Elizabeth Acevedo, a magically insightful novel about a woman’s journey to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us. Dolores Moore’s dead relatives refuse to stay...

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker. Dámaso Funes is a medical miracle. He didn't make a sound when he was born, and as the years go by it's found that he doesn't feel pain. Not when he picks up hot coals with his bare hands or when he breaks his leg. To his father he is a sideshow freak, a spectacle from which he can make money, but to the village doctor who delivered him he is much more. He is a marvel, a wonder of genetics - the next step of human evolution.

Asesinatos y narcotráfico, policías y cárteles. Nadie es inocente. El inspector Dolores Morales y el subinspector Bert Dixon, del Departamento de Narcóticos de la policía nicaragüense, y antiguos guerrilleros, investigan la desaparición de una mujer; las únicas pistas son un yate abandonado en la costa de Laguna de Perlas, sospechoso de transportar drogas, un libro quemado y una camiseta ensangrentada (más tarde aparecerán una valija con cien mil dólares y un vestido de novia).