Robert Stone

Con un estilo que algunos han calificado de «realismo alucinatorio», Dog Soldiers —National Book Award del 1975— nos lleva a Saigón en los últimos días de la guerra de Vietnam. Allí, Converse, un periodista de tercera en busca de experiencias, se embarca en el tráfico de tres kilos de heroína con ayuda de un ex marine, Hicks, que se encargará de transportarla. Sin embargo, de vuelta en EEUU, descubre que su mujer y Hicks han desaparecido con la droga huyendo de un corrupto policía federal que pretende utilizar a Converse para dar con ellos. Se inicia entonces una persecución frenética por media California que es uno de los retratos más escalofriantes del inhóspito panorama moral de un país que había dejado ya muy atrás la paz y el amor: gurús venidos a menos, hippies entregados a la violencia, especímenes hollywoodienses, yonkies deshauciados, pseudointelectuales en caída libre, y una clase política y periodística absolutamente corrompidas. Todo ello con un ritmo brutal y una mirada despiadada que sitúan Dog Soldiers en un puesto de honor dentro de esa tradición que va de Conrad a Hemingway, de Peckinpah a Cormac McCarthy. Sin lugar a dudas, un imprescindible clásico moderno.

In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and is known as something of a firebrand on campus. As the stakes of their relationship prove higher than either one could have anticipated, their union seems destined to yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceFast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists. Madison Smartt BellBrilliant. Washington PostAt an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must end his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.Death of the Black-Haired Girl is an irresistible tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight.At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise, brave, and beautifully just. Boston GlobeUnsettling and tightly wroughtand a worthy cautionary tale about capital-C consequences. Entertainment WeeklyA taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully crafted language. Los Angeles Review of Books

A married Minnesota English professor named Michael Ahearn becomes obsessed with Lara Purcell, who teaches political science at his university. When he travels with her to a Caribbean island where, after the death of her brother, she goes to sell the family-held Bay of Souls Hotel, Michael becomes involved in the corrupt island politics, which include a local war, a military junta, and interfering American business interests. And Lara becomes enmeshed in another side of the island culture: voodoo. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

Una novela basada en hechos reales sucedidos en Oriente Medio, en figuras históricas y bíblicas y en un profundo conocimiento de los escritos místicos. Personajes y lugares que, a modo de gran calidoscopio, nos ofrecen una realidad multiple y compleja, en la que se habla de espiritualidad, creencias, poder, salvacion y apocalipsis.