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1) Canción
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save"--
Series
Classic archive volume 44
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Musical works interspersed with interviews by John Freeman (Profile in music).
11) Dominicana
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a...
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition =
Language
Español
Description
"Despite the singularity and uniqueness of female expression, women's artistic output has been virtually ignored until now. In the field of music, few female composers are known. It doesn't mean that they didn't exist, but rather that their contribution has not been socially recognized and assessed to the same degree as their male counterparts. For this reason, Mundoarts Publications decided to publish a volume entirely devoted to art songs written...
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