François Rosso Libros

In this audaciously original chronicle, we meet Cadence Roth, a Hollywood actress and singer who stands at just 31 inches tall, making her the world's shortest woman. Cady is a true survivor in a town where "you can die of encouragement." After a disappointing early role as a lovable elf in a popular film, where her face was hidden behind a rubber suit, she finds herself performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs while waiting for a breakthrough. Through a series of mordantly funny journal entries, the narrative follows Cady across the hazy landscape of Los Angeles, capturing her interactions with agents, studio moguls, and the everyday challenges posed by small children and large dogs. When a lanky piano player enters her life, Cady experiences a whirlwind of new emotions, prompting her to embark on a daring scheme that could finally bring her the fame she craves. Alongside her best friend Jeff, a gay waiter who relates to her struggle for visibility, Cady's journey becomes a modern parable about the mythology of Hollywood and the toll it takes on its participants. This story speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely explored in literature.

Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. But Kit refuses to accept appearances and her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and the unloved which puts her at terrible risk.

"Una épica desde la intimidad de sus antihéroes" Un rico y bohemio banquero austriaco, Jerónimo Frank, abandona todo y se instala en una pequeña isla del Adriático, donde reabre el gran almacén "El Europeo". Pronto se concierta su matrimonio con la bella joven Alia Emar. La boda se prevé espectacular. Sin embargo, los novios no comparten del todo el júbilo popular. En el ánimo de Jerónimo pesa la trágica leyenda del antiguo propietario del almacén y su joven esposa. En el caso de Alia es el amor de Esteban Coppeta -descendiente de un héroe mítico de la isla- lo que provoca incomodidad y desconcierto. La magnífica boda estallará en un acontecimiento político que desborda a todos los personajes y los transportará del júbilo a la tragedia. Una historia de amor legendario en clave de intriga y humor, una mirada inteligente y satírica sobre la Europa de preguerra, pero también la crónica de una estirpe de emigrantes que llegará a Chile a principios de siglo.