La memoria de los seres perdidos

La memoria de los seres perdidos
Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Adopted children
ISBN: 9789875733541

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Estela was born in Argentina and now lives in Barcelona. She is a happy young woman, in love and with a good family. Everything is perfect, until one day a stranger from her past in Argentina appears on the scene and turns her world upside down by telling her she was adopted.

Horizont-Verschiebungen

Horizont-Verschiebungen
Author: Karsten Garscha
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1998
Genre: African literature (French)
ISBN: 9783823351887

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Perdidos en la memoria

Perdidos en la memoria
Author: Luis Mollá Ayuso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9788493596576

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La Memoria de Los Seres Perdidos

La Memoria de Los Seres Perdidos
Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN: 9780850483901

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The Fragility of Bodies

The Fragility of Bodies
Author: Sergio Olguin
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912242206

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When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal ‘accidents’ on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest.

Malinche

Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2008-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847397182

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An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

As If the Empty Chair

As If the Empty Chair
Author: Margaret Randall
Publisher: Wings Press
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 160940159X

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These twelve exquisite poems depict, with razor-precise clarity, the realities of the "disappeared" in Latin America and the emotional devastation of the families left behind. As human beings, we can find the strength to bury our dead, grieve for them always, and yet somehow move on. Not so with our disappeared loved ones: every moment is filled with the horror of what they must be suffering in some secret torture cell. We never escape from their screams, and we never stop trying to find them. As Margaret Randall so vividly writes, "We cannot move on, for where would they find us when they stumble home?" Estos doce poemas exquisitos representan, con claridad precisa, las realidades de los “desaparecidos” en América Latina y la devastación emocional de las familias que se quedan atrás. Como humanos, podemos encontrar la fuerza para enterrar los muertos, llorar a ellos para siempre y de algún modo proseguir. Pero ésta no es la realidad de la situación de los desaparecidos: cada momento se llena con el horror de lo que sin duda sufren ellos en celdas secretas de tortura. Nunca podemos escapar de sus gritos, pero tampoco podemos parar la búsqueda de ellos. Escribe Margaret Randall, "No podemos seguir adelante; ¿dónde nos encontrarían cuando regresen en casa?"

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525541411

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Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.

The Secret War

The Secret War
Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062259296

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"Monumental." --New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.