They were Harvard '58, the class who thought they could change the world. Danny, the musical prodigy, risks all for Harvard, even a break with his domineering father. Yet his real problems are too much fame too soon - and too many women.Ted spends four years as an outsider. He is obsessed with climbing to the top of the academic ladder, whatever the cost.Jason, the golden boy - handsome, charismatic, athletic - learns at Harvard that he cannot ignore his Jewish background. Only in tragedy will...
A traves de cien montanas es un relato asombroso y conmovedor de migracion, perdida y hallazgo; de como dos mujeres -- una nacida en Mexico y la otra en los Estados Unidos -- encuentran que sus vidas coinciden de la manera mas improbable. Luego de una tragedia que la separa de su madre, Juana Garcia abandona su pueblo en Mexico para encontrar a su padre que habia dejado casa y familia dos anos antes para buscar trabajo en los Estados Unidos. Sin dinero y necesitada de que alguien la ayudar...
Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera extremeña que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo para buscar a su marido, extraviado con sus sueños de gloria al otro lado del Atlántico. Anhela también vivir una vida de aventuras, vetada a las mujeres en la pacata sociedad del siglo XVI. En América, Inés no encuentra a su marido, pero sí un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Francisco Pizarro, junto a quien Inés se enfrenta a los riesgos y las incertidumbres de la conquista y la fu...
Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan - La Medianoche
by Ramon Maria Del Valle-Inclan
Guardians in Blue (The Story of Those Who Protect the Streets, #1)
by Ken Bangs
* Marlow's journey into the heart of the African continent is riddled with ominous encounters. Delineating the atrocious sufferings of the natives under the insensitive company officials, this masterpiece of the 20th century is a peep into the grim realities of imperialism and the dark interiors of human psyche.
Overwhelmed by family stresses and longing to paint again, Negin retreats to her secluded mountain cabin. Unexpected obstacles challenge her artistic reawakening and force her to confront her fear of being alone. Isolation allows readers to journey along with Negin in her quest for calm despite life's raging storms.
Michael Kohlhaas (Art of the Novel) (Klassiker Der Weltliteratur, #36)
by Heinrich von Kleist
"You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer, and I mean to." Based on actual historic events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels. It has become, in fact, a classic tale: that of the honorable man forced to take the law into his own hands. In this incendiary prototype, a minor tax dispute...
***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***'I binged it like a Netflix show... It's stunning' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition______________________________A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hook suspended from the ceiling - and, from its sharp point, the lifeless body of a man hanging by his feet. The story of who he is and how h...