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London 1888
Since she was a child, Annabel Lovelace has had to live with her uncle, the warden of Highgate Cemetery, where she discovers her strange abilty for communicating with the dead, which is perhaps due to the cardiac illness which means she lives between life and death.
This is the life of a group of friends (a photographer, an actress and a casino croupier) who will accompany Hércules Degard, protagonist and narrator, in his strange attempt to transform society through art.
Will everything ever be known about Dani Santana? The former editor of the daily newspaper Crònica now directs an investigations and interviews programme for television. Escaping from one set of problems he finds a whole new set. Tuzza Talese, a temperamental Sicilian who has revealed Mafia secrets appears on his programme and changes his life.
Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai for a contract to be signed between the Government of China and western pharmaceutical companies that will make him a wealthy man. After his stay in Asia, he receives a strange commission: to locate a section of landscape that appears in an old photograph.
Nicolau Comagran Serch, better known as the poet Nic Serch, is a young man who returns to Mallorca after a failed literary career. There, he starts working for his uncle in Hotel Indira, a somewhat decadent establishment which has belonged to his family since his grandfather was alive.
Liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945, Andreu Ribera's sole objective is to get to Paris to find news of Rosa. There, in the Hotel Lutecia, he waits for news with countless other relations of the dead, disappeared and survivors. When everything seems hopeless, he finds help in Blanche, a widow whose son died in the war and who runs a bistro near to the Hotel Lutecia.
Right from the novel’s intriguing title –Hotels of Silence –, Javier Vásconez drags us to the brink of horror. For is there anything more chilling than the sound of a child’s cry piercing the night from inside a hotel? However, the greatest achievement of Hotels of Silence is perhaps its ability to trace various stories of desperate humanity in one novel.
Entrepreneurs play a vital role in today’s society. We rely on them to sustain and create jobs and we understand that they are needed to generate wealth and preserve our well being.
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded.
Huida al Tibet by Endika Urtaran won the XIII (2011) Desnivel Prize for Literature. Jon is a Basque chef and renegade mountaineer who, after a family upset, escapes to Tibet. Dorje, a Tibetan monk with an interest in antique charts, finds a map made by French Jesuits in 1717 with a strange annotation.