Ficción moderna y contemporanea

Will a man walk two thousand kilometres for a woman? In 1967, Ze will. Salazar’s Portugal has become a prison for him.1966: When Jody, young mother and designer from the north of England, arrives on the Lisbon coast, she brings the lure of ‘Swinging London’ to Portuguese painter Ze’s existing dreams of freedom. A nascent love is interrupted when, back in England, husband Michael forces her to choose between their 2-year-old daughter Anna and Ze. And Ze, at home in Lisbon and grounded by the state’s secret police, can only wait.For both Jody and Ze, love is revolution. And personal and political threads weave their story, a period piece set amid the then socially conservative North of England, the light and rugged landscapes of modern Portugal, and the darkness of the dying years of Europe’s longest-running dictatorship. A Sea of Straw, with its pervading atmosphere of saudades, is a quest for love in revolutionary times. 

L'home que estimava els núvols recull sis històries d'amor molt particulars: un indi que estimava el núvols i la pluja, un gat que es va fer amic dels peixos del mar, una nena que estimava els gats amb bogeria, una noia que estimava el mar que no havia vist mai, un nen que estimava els carrers de la seva gran ciutat i un arbre que estimava els trens perquè li explicaven històries que arreplegaven d'arreu del món. Sis contes que se situen en èpoques i llocs molt diversos, esquitxats de fantasia i que expliquen, amb molta tendresa, com es poden arribar a estimar les petites coses de cada dia.

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A través d'una vasta galeria de personatges ingenus, violents i misteriosos que se'ns fan inoblidables, passem de la infantesa idíl·lica de la mare a Menorca, a l'adolescència barcelonina del fill, pertorbada per l'autoritarisme més arbitrari. Les novel·les que s'apleguen a El silenci del món constitueixen un díptic indissociable. És veritat que poden ser llegides independentment l'una de l'altra però, si les veiem com una unitat, tant La noia del ball com Sota la pols s'il·luminen de matisos nous.



?Podem aprendre a viure respectant i no destruint la vida, i d?aquesta manera garantirem un futur a la humanitat?Mikhaïl Gorbatxov fa una crida per refundar els valors i la consciència col·lectiva en una gran perestroika planetària.



The Last of the Sourdoughs is a true Alaskan tale; well, true in the sense that it could have happened. I knew many characters just like the collection of misfits and dreamers who occupy the pages and run wild in the language of this Alaskan romance. Like medieval knights wandering in a land of wild beauty and harsh conditions, with all their human faults exposed, their youth and illusions and spirit of fearlessness guiding the way.?? Alaska seems to beckon characters who end up at the end of the road because it is the only place where the selves they have invented can live.The hero of the story is Lance Appolinaris who is in love with D?sir?e, the daughter of Artie Rex, the owner of the Red Dragon Moving and Transportation Co. Donald Quincy is the sarcastic narrator. A motley crew shows up and moves furniture, but Artie Rex forgets to pay them. To get even with him they get drunk and steal the Red Dragon's money, then head off to Valdez for a wild weekend.? The rest is history.?????





Rupert Carlos is the only son of an English Earl and a Spanish Countess. The Earl tries to persuade Rupert that the “Red Indians” of North America are the losers in the battle for survival because their cultures are weak and inferior. He thinks of himself and his ancestors as swashbuckling Protestant capitalists. He is proud of his family’s involvement in the Hudson’s Bay Company which colonised vast areas of Canada on behalf of the British Empire. However, the Countess feels profound guilt. Since the time of Columbus her aristocratic ancestors exploited los indios of Latin America cruelly and unfairly. She is a Catholic and is also open to an unorthodox belief in “natural priesthood”. As such, she wants to use her immense wealth, her Spanish titles and her son’s future role in the British House of Lords, to make restitution to the Indians of all the Americas from the Arctic to the Antarctic. In his attempt to cope, the intelligent and sensitive young Rupert creates his own secret world in the woodlands of his father’s estate in Oxfordshire, complete with a tipi and an imaginary Indian blood brother. In 1982, while an undergraduate at Oxford, Rupert encounters an 82-year-old Cree Indian “troublemaker” who has come to England to meet the “White Queen”. He confronts the British Parliament and demands that it honour the treaty Queen Victoria made with his grandfather on the Canadian prairies in 1876. His visit is also the fulfilment of a Vision Quest dream he experienced when he was sixteen years of age. As Rupert emerges into manhood, his search for an authentic role in the midst of these conflicting cosmologies is complicated by a corrupt official at the Canadian embassy in London whose scheming triggers a chain of shocking events that forces Rupert to re-evaluate all his beliefs and loyalties. The story also features a Blackfoot-Cree Holy Woman from Alberta and a Jesuit with Christian-Marxist tendencies from Seville. All these complex characters are swept up in mystery and suspense by a plot that twists and turns until the last page. Although it is a modern story, the first four chapters include references to more than a hundred years of relations between Britain and the Indian nations told from both points of view. Set mainly in 1982-85 in England, Canada and Spain, it is fiction inspired by fact in a rich mixture of politics, religion, family and tribe. It demonstrates how the search for personal identity and integrity can play a vital role in nation-building. Eaglechild is a very long novel because it is two books in one. In the first, the main characters transport you to their different worlds. In the second their four worlds collide.

¿Conviene pensar y vivir al margen de lo establecido? Pablo, escéptico, en la treintena, se pregunta si se puede ser feliz. ¿Es posible en la juventud?, ¿en la madurez? A punto de escribir su primer relato, recupera la ilusión tras encontrarse de nuevo a Inés. Su amigo Leopoldo, sin embargo, se tambalea, tal y como le ocurrió a Pablo, a medida que va descubriendo la naturaleza de la vida. ¿Encontrará Pablo con Inés la felicidad que con tanta frecuencia se nos escapa? ¿Superará Leopoldo ese trance por el que pasa toda persona reflexiva?

Athena és la filla adoptiva d'un matrimoni de Beirut. Arran de l'experiència de la maternitat, sent la necessitat urgent de conèixer la seva mare, de comprendre-la, d'estimar-la. La recerca porta Athena a Romania, en un viatge que li canviarà la vida d'una manera inesperada. Paulo Coelho ha escrit un llibre fascinant, a partir del qual el lector descobrirà una tradició basada en la força femenina i en l'amor.

Kids love Dinosaurs and find the topic of farting very funny. Did Dinosaurs fart their way to extinction? Some well-meaning folks think so. Picture a T Rex farting in prehistoric times. The air must have really smelled bad. ?Laugh yourself silly while you color different dinosaurs as they fart and pollute the air. An excellent gag or funny gift for any occasion. ?