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Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility—something to offer the community and impress the spirited girl he has come to love. By the time they are teens, Ah Boon and Siok Mei are caught in the tragic sweep of history: the Japanese army invades, the resistance rises, grief intrudes, and the future of the fishing village is in jeopardy. As the nation hurtles toward rebirth, the two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be, and what they are willing to give up.

LA PRIMERA AVENTURA DE SHERLOCK HOLMES. Estudio en escarlata es la primera obra de Sherlock Holmes que Arthur Conan Doyle escribió, y la primera en que tanto Watson como los lectores de la Gran Bretaña de finales del s.XIX fueron testigos de las habilidades deductivas de este gran personaje. Ahora, más de un siglo más tarde, Ian Edginton e I.N.J. Culbard nos vuelven a presentar esa historia como novela gráfica. LAS NOVELAS ORIGINALES ADAPTADAS AL CÓMIC.

"Al despertar Gregorio Samsa una mañana, tras un sueño intranquilo, se encontró en su cama convertido en un monstruoso insecto". Con este comienzo abrupto e inquietantemente cómico, Franz Kafka, el maestro narrador de nuestras pesadillas existenciales, nos mete de lleno en la historia de un joven que, de la noche a la mañana, sufre una transformación agónica que le va alejando de todo lo que conoce: de su propio cuerpo, de lo que significa ser humano y de la relación con su entorno, especialmente por la brecha de incomprensión y vergüenza que su nueva condición abre entre el y su familia.

Un recorrido penetrante y sin complejos por el espectro completo del deseo sexual de los antiguos. El poeta latino Marcial definía el epigrama como «una poesía breve que termina con una broma picante». Aquí se reúnen los epigramas de los libros V y XII de la "Antología palatina", poemas dedicados, respectivamente, a mujeres y a hombres.

Llegado a la literatura justo en el momento en el que acababa el Simbolismo, y fallecido la víspera del advenimiento del Dadaísmo en París y del nacimiento del Surrealismo, Guillaume Apollinaire (18801918) desarrolló una obra situada en la encrucijada de las principales tendencias estéticas que atraviesan el siglo XX. En "Las tetas de Tiresias", subtitulada "Drama surrealista en dos actos y un prólogo", Teresa muda de sexo y se convierte en hombre para librarse de las imposiciones sociales que sufre como mujer, tras lo cual abandona a su marido y emprende una exitosa carrera militar en Zanzíbar. El marido, a su vez, se adapta a la situación y asume hiperbólicamente los roles asociados a las mujeres, llegando a tener en un único día 40050 hijos. Ingeniosa, irreverente y arriesgada, la obra de Apollinaire cuestiona y desafía la moral de su época.

Antídoto para el olvido, la poesía es un faro que alumbra lo que corre el peligro de perderse en la cotidianidad, en las horas que nos arrastran sin clemencia. De ahí que la búsqueda de la felicidad sea una hazaña, y la poesía el medio para que tal empeño no se pierda en el caudal de los días que se suceden sin remedio. Benito Taibo nos invita en los poemas reunidos en este libro a redescubrir las maravillas que aguardan en cada esquina, a despertar cada mañana con el deseo de aprender algo nuevo, a evocar el dulce resquemor de los amores pretéritos y a soñar con el ojo puesto en las posibilidades de los tiempos venideros, siempre que hallemos en la memoria el salvamento.

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.

Hilarante sátira de la sociedad y política norteamericanas en torno a su documentada creencia en la presencia de extraterrestres en la Tierra. Apoyándose en la documentada creencia del 80% de la población norteamericana de que su gobierno le ha ocultado, durante largo tiempo, información concerniente a la presencia de extraterrestres en el planeta Tierra, Christopher Buckley realiza una excelente sátira que gira en torno a la estupidez y al tedio vital que permean el American way of life, en la que todos, desde el presidente de los Estados Unidos hasta, por supuesto, sus gobernados, son objeto del escrutinio y burla de su hilarante pluma.

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