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On the day following the proclamation of Independence in Equatorial Guinea, in a black neighbourhood of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando Po, someone finds the body of Pablo Montesinos, one of the ringleaders of the Spanish community in the city.
This is the story of how a girl-rat and a boy-chicken ended up in a great big mess through no fault of their own. Well, they may have had a teeny bit to do with it after all because, she did help an eye - a very big eye - out of a jam and in the end one thing led to another and they ended up on an island full of mythological creatures.
Life has put aside something special for Alfonso, a young architect who has fallen apart after the loss of his father: a treasure hidden from the West for centuries. A trip to the desert shows him that death is not the end of being, but only a state of being. His own near-death experience later confirms this intuition.
Marga d’Andurain was born in Bayonne, France into a middle-class Basque family. Rebellious and transgressive, she married a distant cousin, Pierre d’Andurain, at the age of 17 and together they set off for Argentina to seek their fortune. In 1925 they settled in Cairo where the Countess d’Andurain opened a beauty salon.
Nevena's past as a sex slave comes back to haunt both her and her daughter Marina. During the time when she had been forced into prostitution, she had lived in several countries and been owned by a number of masters; although she had been subject to many criminal acts, one very concrete thing that happened during those times has consequences twelve years later.
Argot, new coinages, colloquialisms, expressions, text speak and online chat-language… This entertaining dictionary will help you learn the words you don’t know, the ones they don’t teach in class and don’t show up in conventional dictionaries, whether because they're taboo or politically incorrect or just new.
Isa is a writer for hire, the author of biographical style books that never see the light of day. Just as she decides to give up this work, Francisco appears. He's someone following a dream, to regain a past love that continues to torment him, with confused reasons for hiring Isa's services.
Filled with great and small reflections that invite readers to delve further, Centrings allows us to gradually move closer to the authentic and offers the tools necessary for identifying and disgarding the non-authentic.
Prussia, somewhere near the River Oder, on the Polish border, one winter of the first decades of the nineteenth century. A man arrives from afar with the aim of cultivating the hard soil of the region, and unloads from his cart a coffin carrying the body of his wife, who didn't survive the journey.