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21) La tela de araña
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¿Bajo qué circunstancias una generación desencantada y sin rumbo puede dejarse vencer por la tentación del totalitarismo? Con su primera novela, "La tela de araña"-que apareció en un periódico vienés en octubre y noviembre de 1923, pocos días antes del "putsch" de Múnich (el fallido golpe de Hitler y Ludendorff)-, Joseph Roth parece responder de una manera profética a esa pregunta. El protagonista, Theodor Lohse, es uno de los muchos oficiales...
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When Michael Blake takes early retirement from the British Embassy in Cairo, he books a long-awaited birding trip. But halfway up the Nile, he meets Lee Yong and things begin to change. Their tour guide Reda isn't all he seems either and when, the Egyptian revolution kicks off, Blake finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love and intrigue. Set against the background of the events of January 2011, Birds of the Nile is a powerful story of loss...
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Kennedy Karl Kilpatrick grew up in a world of privilege. As an only child, he believed he was entitled to everything and anything he wanted. His parents found themselves too late in their attempts to discipline their son.Ken loved being in the spotlight and often bragged how great he was. His family, on the other hand, preferred to be left alone. When he decided to run for president, his wife and children feared the worst.
24) Poor Mercy
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Jonathan Falla, author of the acclaimed Blue Poppies, follows up with a devastating story set among the harsh deserts of Western Sudan. Ten years in the writing, the book is disturbingly prescient of recent events. Set in Darfur, this is the dramatic and frightening story of improbable love between two people working for a European aid agency caught up in an African crisis. Mogga and Leila, a black and an Arab, have been badly wounded by their past....
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En la Argentina de fines de la década de 1950, los militares han devuelto el gobierno a los civiles, pero ese gobierno parece dispuesto a reponer la ilusión demagógica y recrear un caudillo nuevo a partir de los votantes peronistas. Tulio Graciano, viejo amigo del periodista Horacio Vergara, lo tienta con un alto sueldo para que deje la agencia de noticias donde lleva décadas trabajando y se sume a la maquinaria de propaganda y cooptación de...
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When does a game stop being a game? And what would cause a young boy to commit an act of savage violence? In Time on My Hands by Giorgio Vasta, the year is 1978, and a chilling drama is unfolding in Rome. Members of a leftist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades have kidnapped the former Italian prime minister, Aldo Moro, and are holding him in a secret prison, while broadcasting their demands to the public.
Far from Rome, in Palermo, Sicily,...
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A timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism.
In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. In his possession, policemen find a map on which a swastika has been drawn with a red pen. Who was he, and where was he going?
In a novel that reads as both biography and mystery, the internationally celebrated novelist Sjón tells the story of Gunnar...
28) Las noticias
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"La vida interna de una redacción de diario, las argucias de la maquinación de noticias, las miserias del mundito literario, la crueldad empresarial: con estos mismos materiales narrativos se destapan ollas, se cobran venganzas, se denuncian chanchullos, o bien se lanza un texto como quien lanza una molotov. Pero Hernán Arias cultiva una prosa despojada, la de los impasibles, ajena a las altisonancias, deseosa de precisión. El recorrido del director...
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'Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.' -Le Monde
Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. Down With the Poor! which borrows its title from a poem by Baudelaire is the story of a woman...
30) El asedio animal
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En Hukuméiji, cerca del río Don Diego y el mar Caribe, la lluvia torrencial despierta la memoria de sus habitantes mientras los deslaves arrastran lodo, casas y cadáveres. En este poblado del norte colombiano, el cuerpo de los seres humanos experimenta el placer y el deseo, pero también es el terreno donde el horror de la violencia imprime los castigos más brutales y permanentes. A los protagonistas de estas historias les han arrancado algo:...
31) Martin Rivas
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Martín Rivas (1862) is a novel by Alberto Blest Gana. Regarded as the first Chilean novel, Martín Rivas is a powerful story of romance, class, and national unity from an author who served for decades as a diplomat and ambassador for Chile. Inspired by the social realism of Honoré de Balzac, Blest Gana retains his European roots while remaining true to the emerging culture of his country. Martín Rivas has always feared the walls closing in. Born...
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Cuando el narrador de esta novela conoce a Mirko Bevilacqua, un hombre extravagante que frecuenta de manera intermitente y clandestina a Clara, una joven que cuida de una anciana y elegante dama croata, su percepción de la realidad cambia irreversiblemente. Esta enigmática tríada sumerge al narrador en una exploración sobre la idea de autenticidad que lo llevará a recorrer la vieja Europa, cuyos lugares más significativos corren el riesgo de...
33) Tango satánico
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En una remota región rural de Hungría azotada por el viento y la incesante lluvia, unos pocos miembros de una fallida cooperativa llevan una vida anodina en un pueblo ya casi fantasmal mientras aguardan impotentes a que un milagro les devuelva el futuro. Hasta que un día reciben la noticia de que, en la carretera que conduce a la aldea, se ha avistado al astuto y carismático Irimiás, desaparecido años atrás y al que daban por muerto. Su simple...
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For several years, Robert Kelley lived a primitive and contented life in a fishing village in the mangrove swamps of Sierra Leone. There, he developed and managed a project that built a cooperative fisheries station to support remote coastal villages. His development work done, he reluctantly turns the station over to the corrupt government Fisheries Division, whom he knows from experience will simply steal its resources and go away, leaving the villagers...
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Si a comienzos de la transición política a la democracia un historiador de la escuela conservadora pudo calificar como "inexistentes" a los mapuche y como "ficticio" al conflicto que ellos mantienen con el Estado, se debía, entre otras cosas, a que el gran muro levantado por la elite republicana ante la historia y la cultura mapuche aún permanecía firme y de pie en la cultura chilena.
En ese contexto, la publicación de Recado confidencial a...
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Stanley Noseworthy is, at best, a serial monogamist. At worst, a faithless rake. Now his record-breaking long-term lover ("1001 better-than-Arabian nights") Nina is fed up with his "inimitable bull%#$#" and threatening to end their relationship. "Show us there is some good in you," Stanley's best friend urges. "Show us there is a brain." But Stanley's decisions do not tend to be made by his brain. He has profoundly mixed feelings about losing Nina,...
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A Sensation Novel (1871) is a comic musical by W. S. Sullivan. First performed at the Royal Gallery of Illustration in January 1871, A Sensation Novel is one of Gilbert's collaborations with composer Thomas German Reed, whose German Reed Entertainments have been credited with revitalizing British theatre. As a satire of Victorian sensation novels that employs self-aware stock characters, the play is a metatheatrical work that anticipates Luigi Pirandello's...
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Set in fall 1988, Sunshine On An Open Tomb shuttles between two storylines: the creation of The CIA as a result of the Texas/Kingdom oil connection, and a love triangle involving the moon. Our narrator is the brooding runt of a political dynasty whose father is about to be appointed Prez. He is thoughtful, but has trouble expressing himself due to his many physical defects as a result of inbreeding. Desperate for content at the advent of the 24-hour...
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Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel 'More Than This'. Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, 'A Monster Calls' and new novel 'More Than This'. Welcome to the seaside metropolis of Hennington, where a mysterious herd of rhinoceros has wandered city streets for so long it's...
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"Soy tu hermana Irene". Dieciséis años después de abandonar a su familia Daniel recibe ese mensaje por Facebook. Su pasado acaba de irrumpir para llevarle hacia todos los motivos por los que nunca regresó. En el verano de 1999 Daniel, joven estudiante de Periodismo en Madrid, había llamado desde Edimburgo para comunicar a su madrastra, Maribel, y su medio hermana de seis años, Irene, que nunca iba a volver. En la España de la Expo, el AVE y...
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