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Shortly before he dies in an accident, Guillermo confesses to his friend Eusebio that he is involved in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with a mysterious woman. Eusebio decides to look for this woman to tell her Guillermo has died. And when he finds her, he is bewitched by her. He doesn't dare tell her anything of the secrets he knows in fear of scaring her off.
If poetry shouldn't worry about being beautiful or pleasant or seeking for truth; if poetry has to be painful, accompany our sleepless nights; if it is born in blotted notebooks while one walks up and down the city; if it must take us to the very edge of the precipice, "paralysed by the strange, vague doubt of continued existance", in short to possess "the raging force of lif
The main character of this story, the author's alter ego,is a nineteen-year-old scholar who is employed on a local newspaper. He's a very practical kid who enjoys his work until the day he sleeps with the newspaper's sexologist, Daniela Costa, an expert in her field, a tall, slim, attractive and elegant woman, but cold as ice.
Lucas was convinced that he was born to fly. He watched planes, tried to make himself all kinds of wings, and even asked to be able to fly as a Christmas present! But nothing worked… One day, his mother explained that there were other ways to make his dream come true, and put a book in his hands. That same day, without realising it, Lucas began to fly…
One of the fundamental questions in this study is the one which is – at least for those who tend to perceive the world with their ears before their eyes – the most complex within the field of the humanities: the relationship between language and music, that wide and well-mined area involves the text, melody, prosody, articulation, verbal and musical rhythm, the meaning of words and
In a carpet from India a journalist finds a message from the child who wove it. It's a plea for help, a desperate cry he cannot ignore. Though there are millions of children being expoited all over theworld, this message comes with a name, Iqbal, and from a specific place, the city of Madurai.
Celia is a thirteen-year-old girl who was cryogenically frozen because she was suffering from a terminal disease, and is now returned to the 22nd century to be adopted. In a future society where everyone has a robotic assistant Celia clashes with her adoptive mother’s way of thinking, acting and relating, and with her environment, so different to that of her biological family.
Wichi is a twelve-year-old Thai girl, intelligent, joyful and outgoing. Happy because her parents live together and love each other, things begin to go wrong the day her mother starts spending the little money they have on gambling. Her despairing father turns to alcohol and disappears from the family home, never to return.
This story begins when the cities began to grow at the cost of forests and jungles, and when pollution began to fill the skies and the oceans. This is the story of Greta, a little girl who decided not to go to school so she could fight climate change. It is also about the animals of the Amazon and all those across the world that got together to defend their land, their water and their traditions.
In the time of your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents, when "the good old days" hadn't even been invented, Trog wanted to make the Journey. But in the Invisibles tribe only boys made the Journey. And Trog was a girl. So Trog decided to do what the boys did: she went out one night, crossed the high plains in search of prey.