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Años después del cataclismo final, un contrabandista que se dedica a traficar objetos entre las ciudades en ruinas recibe el encargo de escoltar a una enigmática adolescente a través de una desolada geografía en la que imperan la deshumanización y la violencia. Pero esa huida no será más que el comienzo de una travesía signada al mismo tiempo por el horror y la esperanza. En esa intemperie hostil habitada por hordas bárbaras en la que cada...
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Not a chronological biography but an account of what Kahlil Gibran was about and what he believed in as told by his closest friend and personal secretary who knew him during the last seven years of his life. Includes some of his paintings and etchings and snippets of his poems and writings. Records the personal history of the Lebanese poet and painter, vividly recreating his personality and philosophy.
Author of this book, Barbara Young, was an art...
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Les images de la maternité naissent dans les clichés (Communion! Souffrance! Délivrance!), vivent de clichés (Main sur un front fiévreux! Claque en arrière de la tête!) et meurent sur un cliché (Elle ne m'a jamais dit qu'elle m'aimait!). Pour les contourner, il faut avancer prudemment, faire confiance aux histoires qui émergent et espérer qu'elles forment, au bout du compte, un tout cohérent. Fanny Britt se risque ici à une sorte de plaidoyer...
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La infancia de Luis Torres de la Osa estuvo mecida por el paisaje hipnótico de las pistas rojas de tierra batida y por la promesa embriagadora de convertirse algún día en un jugador profesional. La carrera de la joven promesa tenística, no obstante, quedó truncada por un final súbito y nada dramático: no hubo una lesión aterradora, tan solo la delectación juguetona del adolescente que se asoma a la vida fuera de la pista. Ese momento decisivo,...
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A major reassessment of the great English novelist
This impressive new book by the celebrated British critic Frank Kermode examines hitherto neglected aspects of the novelist E. M. Forster's life and work. Kermode is interested to see how it was that this apparently shy, reclusive man should have claimed and kept such a central position in the English writing of his time, even though for decades he composed no fiction and he was not close to any...
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National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016
Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life, and by the idea of sudden death. Running away from school to pursue the two poets, De Quincey...
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"An intriguing narrative of literary ambition and family dysfunction-betrayal, drug addiction, and madness-that begins during the Spanish Civil War." -Amanda Vaill, The New York Times Book Review
In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain's most compelling and eccentric family,...
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