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Miranda is an eight-year-old girl whose favourite pastime is to read books like this one, which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, a brave American who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, and was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. As a girl she wanted to be the first to try everything, and she spent her whole life seeking out challenges to take on.
In an unnamed city some disillusioned young people start a back-to-nature movement: they leave behind their children and go to live in the woods. Some time later, the the local deer begin to act strangely, become aggressive.
In this new book, Doctor Enrique Rojas analyses rigorously and with an engaging style one of the most paradigmatic diseases of our time: loneliness. In a society so hasty, dehumanized and competitive, interpersonal relationships have reached such a degree of shallowness that even when we are with someone, we feel lonely.
How did the great thinkers love? The stoics, patiently; the vitalists, enthusiastically; the nihilists, pesimistically. For a philosopher, love is as exciting and as painful as it is for the rest of us mortals. Plato's eroticism, Saint Augustine's lust, Spinoza's frustration, Abelard and Heloïse's passion and the strange relationship of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir have all contributed towards our concept of love.
A book to fall in love with on a small scale and be enjoyed on a large scale. Samuel lives enclosed in a bubble of loneliness, from which he only emerges to teach at the university. But his hermetic world starts to crack on the day a stray cat comes into his house.
Barcelona, July 18, 1936. The winds of history change forever the life of young anarchist Valentina Mur. After her father dies on the day of a coup d'etat against the government of the Republic, she is driven to take part in the revolution exploding in the Catalan capital.
Over 4 generations of mothers and daughters from one family, 'Amor meva' relates the story of brave, liberal women with Jewish roots over the course of the 20th century. From great-grandmother Rut to young Debora, via Regina and Pat, for an entire century the women from the Valleriola have fought a brave and determined struggle to make a place for themselves in the world.
Ranging from science fiction to realism, narrative to poetry, novel to short story, Amor y exilios is a book which defies definition, simplification or commercialization. Divided into seven books, which form a single narrative corpus, each section shows us a story of coldness and exile. What is exile but the separation of desired infantile love?
Abi is an intelligent, insightful, imaginative young woman who dreams about marrying Mario. She thinks she’s achieved total happiness, but her plans crumble when a seductive charmer enters her life. Will she be able to resist him or will she let herself be carried away by passion?
The year is 1997. During a Mediterranean cruise, four top businessmen set themselves the challenge of creating a marvellous, unique and inimitable object, out of the reach of even the richest person.