This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...

Novella about the innocent young Maria, whose bookish interests centre on swashbuckling piratical adventures ; her virginity is for sale at a bordello, until she is rescued by Manolo. A new twist on the Cinderella tale. Includes an account of how the novella became the movie Cachito.

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, Lulu, and makes her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.

Corporate mogul hires a prostitute to be his companion for a week.

De Jorge Volpi, autor de En busca de Klingsor y Memorial del engaño. El universo de la trata de mujeres en Tijuana descrito en esta novela ha inspirado la ópera Cuatro corridos, con música de Hilda Paredes, Lei Liang, Hebert Vázquez y Arlene Sierra (2013), así como la película Las elegidas, de David Pablos. "Los hombres son perros sin bozal, perros sin sesos, perros a los que domeñan sus instintos." La leyenda sostiene que, desde épocas prehispánicas,...

A prostitute leads a pious life waiting for several years for her lover to take her home, but meets him when he rescues his daughter from the same brothel house.