Sonar un crimen

by Rosana Acquaroni

While vacationing in Marbella, Carlos sees her for the first time. After that, he is certain that a great danger lurks within her.

Genres: Spanish Literature

56 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2006

About the author

Rosana Acquaroni (Madrid, 1964) es licenciada en Filología Hispánica (UAM) y doctora en Lingüística Aplicada (UCM). Ha publicado los poemarios "Del mar bajo los puentes" (Accésit del Premio Adonais, 1987), "El Jardín Navegable" (1990, reeditado por Torremozas en 2017), "Cartografía sin mundo" (Premio de Poesía Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad, 1994), "Lámparas de arena" (2000) y "Discordia de los dóciles" (2011). Su anterior poemario, "La casa grande" (Bartleby, 2018), fue Premio Libro del Año 2019 en la modalidad de Poesía, otorgado por el Gremio de Librerías de Madrid. Ha sido incluida en numerosas antologías y traducida a varios idiomas.

Reviews

[Jacelyn]

Spanish class, what are you doing to me...

[Vicky Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Sí, hay cosas más importantes que el dinero."/Yes, there are things more importante than money.

Love, pain, fear, betrayal, revenge... so many things money can't buy or pay. With beautiful lyrical language, this tale opens on the pain and sadness of a troubled young man, haunted by memories of a past auto accident that happened when he was a teenager. But, there is much more to the story, and its a bit of a mini-thriller. Dreaming a Crime is a short novela in the Leer en Espanol Graded Reader series. It is level one, so it is quite easy, and should be readable in one sitting for any early Spanish readers.

This paperback was not part of my original collection. I found it used on Amazon this week. It seems the new print runs include an audio cd, but the reviews say that it only reads portions of each chapter and is not very good. I have to agree that it seems pointless to have a cd to hear part of the book. I think the old editions are much nicer looking, so I stuck with that. This story was a good read, and a bit edgy... not something for kids. It is very well written for such a small 400 word vocabulary limit, and great practice for second language learners. And, wow! The ending!

[Linnea Johansson · Rating 3 out of 5]

¡Mi primer libro que he leído en español! Era un poco confuso, pero era divertido cuando podría entender más y más vocabulario. Ahora, quiero aprender el pasado y leer otro, pero antes voy a leer el libro de poesía bilingüe de Pablo Neruda.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting story with an ambiguous ending that left me thinking. A nice, easy Spanish read.

[Makayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending was great and I’m in my second year learning Spanish and it was an easy read

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, that ending! So many questions.

Read for Spanish Class.

[Care · Rating 4 out of 5]

pues, basic, y no sé por qué nuestra profe nos hizo leerlo en nuestro cuarto año de estudiar español...pero es bueno

[Mary Emily O'Hara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't expect my graduated spanish learning novellas to be so dark! What's with all the hallucinations and murders?

[Juan Meziat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una muy buena historia, que va a la velocidad perfecta y está genera fervientemente las emociones deseadas.

[Mohamed El Gammal]

Es una novela adecuada para los estudiantes del nivel A1, A2

[Jaclynn]

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