Lágrimas del Cielo Sobre El Mundo: Fines y Reinicios de la Tierra

What secret did Juan Ponce de León discover in Florida? Commanding two ships and two hundred men, the Spanish conqueror landed in 1521 in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth. After endless incidents, they believe to have found it in a thousand-year-old temple but, far from its rejuvenating effects, the elixir had a very different power than that attributed by legend. Ponce de León wanted to take it to Spain so that the emperor, taking advantage of its prodigious effects, could conquer the Holy Places of Jerusalem, held by the Ottomans. Five centuries later, that mysterious fluid...

Tenía intención de reclamar lo que era suyo... No se habían vuelto a rozar desde aquella noche de hacía quince años, pero Donna Barreto aún reconocía el deseo en los ojos de Jake Lonergan. El deseo y la culpa. Tenía remordimientos por haber tratado de hacerla suya mientras ella era la novia de su primo. Aquél había sido su secreto... hasta que ella se había marchado de la ciudad con un secreto aún mayor. Ahora Jake pretendía darle al hijo de Donna el apellido que merecía por derecho, el honor le obligaba a hacerlo. Pero era la pasión la que lo impulsaba a luchar por la mujer...

"Mendoza's novel deals with the deterioration in Colombia as a result of the corrupting power and wealth of the drug mafia. Set in Barranquilla, the protagonist returns from Paris in search of friends and relatives. The novel compares the sophistication of established families to the tastelessness of the ascending rich. An acerbic view of the mafia's role in Colombia in recent years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The disinherited, which takes place in what has come to be known and studied as the Madrid of Galdós or Galdosian Madrid, narrates the misadventures of Isidora --the supposedly disinherited--, a pretty girl who arrives in the Spanish capital "full of illusions, falls into prostitution and ends up in jail. "A dreamy sensibility that has been led to believe the heir of a marquisate. In this regard, Casalduero, correctly reading Galdós, notes that "an impostor like Isidora can have tragic greatness when he himself is deceived; otherwise he is a vulgar faker".