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Don Segundo Sombra (1926) es una narración en primera persona de Ricardo Güiraldes. En ella se narra el proceso de formación de un joven, Fabio Cáceres, que busca la libertad en la pampa y en el mundo gaucho.
Fabio Cáceres aprenderá al lado de Don Segundo Sombra, un maestro cualificado (siempre segundo y siempre en la sombra). Junto a él va viviendo los quehaceres cotidianos del gaucho, no faltando tampoco los episodios amorosos y sentimentales.
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6) La hojarasca
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These are a series of interlocking stories, written by Garcia Marquez in the fifties of the last century. The stories of a burial and hate.
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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship...
10) Eclipse
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Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
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2009.
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En este cuento, publicado en 1964 por Le Clézio, quién ganará el Premio Nobel en 2008, el protagonista se despierta una mañana con el más peor dolor de los dientes de su vida. Este dolor crece y lo lleva a sufrimiento exitencial y a un fín surrealista.
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"Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma de Laverde le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que...
15) Diario
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A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Presented in Spanish.
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Primera edición en Debosillo.
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La historia de amor más intensa de la literatura portuguesa ahora la podemos encontrar dentro de la Biblioteca José Saramago, colección dedicada al Premio Nobel de 1998. En el ambiente opresivo, cerrado y polvoriento de la Conservaduría General del Registro Civil trabaja como escribiente don José, un soltero solitario que un buen día decide crear su particular registro de personas famosas. No contento con los datos que le proporcionan...
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©2016
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Carlos Fuentes examina la separación entre México y Estados Unidos con el cristal de la discriminación, el racismo, la violencia, pero también la fuerza de la vida mexicana, que parece sobrevivir a todas las agresiones.
This novel portrays Carlos Fuentes' best; it is aggressive, sharp, and powerful. With penetrating humor and frank narrative, the nine stories (in this novel) depict the rift that has occurred between the U.S. and Mexico in...
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Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas,...
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