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The case of the girl Anna O'Donnell spread throughout Ireland around 1840. At eleven years old, the little girl had not eaten for four months, as her humble parents began assuring and neighbors continued commenting. Until that survival to such a period of starvation without fatal consequences is extended ...
Humor is the best remedy for boiling blood, heartburn and the brutal indigestion of social and political reality. But I think that we are so up to the very end of such a ilk that surrounds us, that in the end this book Three Dwarfs and a Peak is over ...
There are certain myths and mysteries that are cyclically renewed in the popular imagination, as well as in cinema and literature. The Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis and El Dorado are probably the three magical locations in the world. Those that have derived the most in ink rain for ...
The true survivors of the wars appear among the punished people who assume their victims as best they can. A child who is taken from his mother on the last day of the Civil War finds in the arms of Mrs. Stendhal his only shelter in which to continue ...
The invention of light, beyond God Himself, we attribute entirely to Thomas Edison. But, what was behind the invention that served to illuminate cities around the world? In this novel we are asked a multitude of questions about the invention of the electric light bulb. ...
History to three times. Since 2011 and going back to 1938 and 1945. Three times that bring to the present a very personal legacy for Juan Delforo, the protagonist of the novel. But in his legacy, Juan Delforo also collects a crucial testimony for the understanding of the construction of a country, Spain, ...
To be able to surprise the reader, and more so in a noir novel, where so many authors have been trying lately to demonstrate their mastery, is not an easy task. In the book The Angel, Sandrone Dazieri achieves that final effect, an exquisite trick to unveil a mystery that holds the reader's heart ...
Intruder is an awkward word. Feeling an intruder is even more so. Antoinette Conway joins the Dublin homicide squad as a detective. But where he expected camaraderie and professional indoctrination, he finds occultism, harassment, and estrangement. She is a woman, perhaps it is only because of that, she has entered a male preserve ...
Policeman Harry Bosch is charged with a case between the grotesque and the ridiculous. At least that's how it seems to him from the outset. That a guy dies from a bullet ten years after receiving it seems more typical of a later natural death, unrelated to a murderous bullet with a function ...
I present to you Alain Delambre, former director of Human Resources and now unemployed. The paradox of the current labor system represented in this character. In this book Inhuman Resources, we dress in the skin of Alain at the age of fifty-seven and participate in his discovery of the other side of the process ...
Eternity, life beyond death is guessed in the brush with another skin. It is at that molecular moment that we approach eternity. Sex is nothing more than an explosive reflection of an eternal life that does not belong to us, an attempt to project ourselves ...
Leipzig is a city with clear reminiscences of the East Germany to which it belonged. Today it is risky to say that the inhabitants of a big city like this are more hermetic and reserved, but it is true that an evening walk at sunset ...