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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
2) Crazy
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In 1941 New York, young Joey El Bueno's world is turned upside-down when he meets the enigmatic Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with pigtails who seems to know him better than he knows himself, comes and goes at will, claims to have once levitated six feet off the ground, and seems to only be known by Joey.
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2021.
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Español
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"La vida es corta, y nadie lo sabe mejor que Lenni Pettersson a sus diecisiete #os. Enfadada con el mundo porque el tiempo se le acaba, Lenni todava tiene mucho que experimentar y demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Margot tiene ochenta y tres #os. Cuando conoce a Lenni en el taller de arte del hospital le ofrece su amistad incondicional. A partir de ese momento, los das de Lenni se expanden como nunca hubiera imaginado: las historias que le cuenta...
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2011.
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English
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Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life-or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private...
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