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DESCUBRE EL MUNDO DE CINCUENTA SOMBRAS DE GREY A TRAVÉS DE LOS OJOS DE CHRISTIAN GREY. CHRISTIAN necesita tenerlo todo bajo control. Su mundo es puro orden y disciplina aunque, en el fondo, está vacío... hasta el día en que Anastasia Steele aterriza de bruces en su despacho, hecha una maraña de largo pelo castaño y esbeltas piernas. Él intenta olvidarla pero, muy al contrario, se ve inmerso en una tormenta de emociones que no consigue controlar y a la que no puede resistirse. A diferencia de todas las mujeres que ha conocido, la tímida e inexperta Ana parece capaz de ver más allá del exitoso empresario y la lujosa vida que le rodea, y descubrir el corazón frío y lastimado de Christian. ¿Logrará su relación con Ana disipar las pesadillas que le acechan todas las noches? ¿O serán sus oscuros impulsos sexuales, su obsesión por el control y el desprecio hacia sí mismo los que alejarán a la joven y destruirán la frágil esperanza que ella le ofrece?

Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night." In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s. Feed is running low in a rural village in Switzerland. The town council meets to decide whether or not to ascend a chimerical mountain in order to access the open pastures that have enough grass to “feed seventy animals all summer long.” The elders of the town protest, warning of the dangers and the dreadful lore that enfolds the mountain passageways like thick fog. They’ve seen it all before, reckoning with the loss of animals and men who have tried to reach the pastures nearly twenty years ago. The younger men don’t listen, making plans to set off on their journey despite all warnings. Strange things happen. Spirits wrestle with headstrong young men. As the terror of life on the mountain builds, Ramuz’s writing captures the rural dialog and mindsets of the men. One of the most talented translators working today, Bill Johnston captures the careful and sublime twists and turns of the original in his breathtaking translation.