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Jordi Cussà errupted onto the Catalan literary scene with Wild Horses (2000). This cult novel surprised critics and readers alike with its true portrayal of life on the margins - addiction to hard drugs - a somewhat neglected theme among Catalan writers, and for its innovative language and style.
Georges Miet writes made-to-order mass-market stories for the French publishing house La Fortune, until one day his editor asks him for a 'serious' novel about the tragic events that shook the vibrant city of Biarritz fifteen years before, in 1925, during the summer season. The body of a local young woman was found tied to a mooring ring in the docks.
in life, in landscape, in society, proud castles take precedence, dominating everything, while around them there are areas of shadow, miserable or charming. A romantic novel centring on two great characters, Every Castle and All the Shadows constitutes a formidable sizing up of contemporary Barcelona through its contradictions, its past, its tragedy and illusions.
In a remote taberna there are some who say that the poet Manuel Antonio lost his head over a woman dressed in moon-white who had been rescued by a sea captain called Joseph Conrad. The Diario Compostelano of September 9, 1945 diid not run the story about how the owner of the brewery Cervezas Cruceiro tried his first foaming tankard at the age of nine during the Expostion Universelle in Paris.
Yechezkel Damjanich is a young Jewish violinist who lives with his mother in the devastated Budapest of 1947. One day, he receives a letter from Jerusalem from his uncle Yosef, whom he hasn't heard from for 12 years, and who his mother loathes for no apparent reason. Fleeing poverty, the two arrive in Palestine at a turbulent political moment, just before the English leave the region.
'Are you afraid of flying? You will be.' Aviation, Electronic Voice Phenomena, ancient Celtic myths... all this and more is brought together in this masterful novel. An airline pilot leaves a trail of death and blood behind him.
Good customer service is important to today’s businesses, and has become a significant competitive advantage which allows them to maintain their market position, to grow and to make a profit. This benefit attracts customers and gives them the confidence to return for the products and services that the company offers.
Over tens of thousands of years human beings have lived by using the energy of the sun, the tides, the wind and wood to cover their needs. However, after the Industrial Revolution, they started to use a massive amount of coal, oil and natural gas.
'Water Paths' is the second book in the 'The Light of Artús' trilogy and begins a long way from where 'Caminos de noche' ('Night Paths'), the first volume, left off. But we are reunited with Ruth, the heroine of the first book, in the castle of Montsegur. It may seem a safe refuge, but the war has set the continent on fire and the forces who pursue her are determined and have a long reach.
During the convulsive and fast moving 20th Century, sculpture underwent huge formal and conceptual transformations which were essential to the construction of contemporary thought. This book aims to cover some of the paths which sculpture has taken by analysing artists' ideas and work which are considered milestones on this journey.