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Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.
2) Puro amor
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"Sandra Cisneros has a fondness for animals and this little gem of a story makes that abundantly clear. 'La casa azul,' the cobalt blue residence of Mister and Missus Rivera, overflows with hairless dogs, monkeys, a fawn, a 'passionate' Guacamaya macaw, tarantulas, an iguana, and rescues that resemble 'ancient Olmec pottery.' Missus loves the rescues most 'because their eyes were filled with grief.' She takes lavish care of her husband too, a famous...
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""No hay amigos, sino momentos de amistad", anoto en su diario intimo Jules Renard. Fiel a este espiritu, y con la rara mezcla de crudeza, emotividad y humor que caracteriza el estilo de Carlos Pardo, Lejos de Kakania es una inclemente diseccion de la amistad y de la caducidad de los afectos. Tambien, un estudio de los encantamientos del arte y de nuestras fragiles identidades culturales en la periferia del mundo de consumo. Despues de haber fracasado...
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"C. S. Lewis, el gran escritor brìtnico, erudito, t̤elogo laico, locutor, apologista cristiano y autor dě xitos de ventas como Mero cristianismo, Cartas del diablo a su sobrino, El gran divorcio, Las c̤rnicas de Narnia y muchos otros c̀lsicos muy apreciados, recrea brillantemente la historia de Cupido y Psique. Mientras no tengamos rostro, narrado desde el punto de vista de la hermana de Psique, Orual; es un brillante aǹlisis de la envidia,...
5) Stardust
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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The fantasy fairy tale about a young man, an evil witch, and the sons of a lord, all seeking the star, a young woman living in the land of Faerie. Annotation. In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall, a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the inquisitive from...
6) Eartheater
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"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
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This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall.--Amazon.
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Cañas y barro es una novela escrita por el escritor español Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en 1902, y ambientada en la Valencia rural (la Albufera) de principios de siglo XX. La novela observa y retrata la realidad social del momento y lugar con precisión absoluta, contando igualmente con matices costumbristas.
Este relato forma parte del «ciclo valenciano» donde se mezcla un fuerte componente regionalista con rasgos del naturalismo, especialmente en...
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Kirkus Best Books of 2018
"Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the...
10) Among the hedges
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Soon, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, a fifty-year-old man stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her.Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about Old Man...
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"José Federico Burgos es un pintor frustrado devenido falsificador, atrapado en un esplendor surrealista y algo alarmante que involucra una obra maestra flamenca, un vagabundo pícaro y dos hermanas mellizos tan intimidantes como ingeniosos. Él bebe demasiado alcohol, deambula por la zona y, cada día que pasa sin lograr copiar la pintura, se acerca un poco más hacia lo que realmente sucede tras los altos muros del jardín."--Cover page 4
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12) The promise
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A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life-a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes, reconocida como la primera novela moderna. Este clásico imprescindible de la literatura española cuenta la historia del caballero Quijano, que lee libros de caballería hasta el punto de perder la razón: se proclama caballero andante, bautizado como Don Quijote, y recorre España en su viejo caballo acompañado de su escudero Sancho Panza,...
14) Why, Why, Why?
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A man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolves immediately. Over the course of a phone call, a man learns that his girlfriend died months ago, and that he's been unknowingly seeing her twin sister. Prince Charming marries Cinderella, but then has an affair with the evil stepsisters. A psychopath's liver explodes after a night of heavy drinking, but instead of...
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Décryptez L'Ombre du vent de Carlos Ruis Zafón avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir de L'Ombre du vent, le roman historique au succès mondial? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.
The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight imaginatively blends the genres of fiction...
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America as seen through the eyes of a Puerto Rican maid. She is America Gonzalez, brought over by a Westchester, New York, couple who met her in a hotel in Puerto Rico where she was a cleaner. A novel filled with insights and observations by the author of When I Was Puerto Rican.
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