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The Son of Mama Dana is set in the depths of the Colombian coffee region, in a small village nestled in the mountains near the home of the Emberá peoples. The unusual Dutchman, Hyeronimus Paling, appears four times in the narrative and gradually reveals the scene, the characters in the drama, the situation of violence and impunity, and the silence that hangs over it all.
It is the year 134 BC. Under the command of Rhetogenes, Numantia [in modern-day north-central Spain] has been resisting the power of invincible Rome for over twenty years, and the surrounding moorlands are so soaked in Italian blood that the Romans refuse to enlist in the legions.
The book unfolds as a memoir, a true story told with the tools and techniques of fiction, but also as a narrative essay on the illusions and resentments of love, a double self-portrait with landscape --the landscape of the ever-changing Spain of the '80s-- and figures, a rich gallery of real characters, some of them extremely well-known, which are treated as fictional characters or witnesses of a
“Democracy and the Constitution, which were born almost at the same time as we were, told us that everyone had the right to be whatever they wanted to be. All of society agreed and came together to preserve our hopes and dreams. We were going to be whatever we wanted to be.
In a distant city, there is a mystery greater than a field of daisies or a cloudless sky. It's the mystery of Lucas's smile, which appears on his face day and night, in summer and winter, 365 days a year. Well, 366 on leap years. Scientists from all over the world come to study the phenomenon without success. Not even Lucas can explain it. He's simply happy.
THE BOY WHO is a graphic novel that tells about a particular time and its customs (a summer in the Seventies), and pays special attention to the way wit and imagination can be more powerful that traditional, self-repeating fantasy. It shows the wanderings of Luis, a six-year-old boy.
Here again, staring at the mirror, here again with same idea of taking his own life. In his clenched fist, Mum's sleeping pills, the only hope of escaping the hell his school mates make for him; his only reason to live the love he has for his little sister Teresa. Years of bullying at school have reduced Santiago to a shadow of himself.
This beautifully illustrated anthology brings together three of Oscar Wilde's best-known stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, and The Selfish Giant. The stories contain some of the themes that most preoccupied the author - selfishness, inequality and suffering - and consider how to counter them with love, compassion and generosity.
After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.