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A new girl, Felisa Wilmer, joins a religious school for girls in the north of Buenos Aires. Recently arrived from London, Felisa becomes the centre of attention thanks to her rebellious attitude and bad behaviour, and her artistic tendencies, her perfect English and her impenetrable and independent character means that she is surrounded by a 'poetic' aura.
Martín Berasategui's new book features 150 straightforward yet surprising recipes.
Martín Berasategui and El País-Aguilar have joined forces once again to present foodlovers with the kinds of meals everyone loves, meals that are based in home cooking, prepared properly and with honesty - Martin's hallmarks. The touch of a master.
It tells eight real stories that take place during the civil war, stories rescued from those who, in order to survive, had to leave Spain to try their luck in another country.
Almost anonymous characters who went to great lengths to survive and help others parade through these pages.
In the outskirts of Prague a woman’s body appears: her throat has been slit and her eyes gouged out. Over the following weeks, one by one, more women’s bodies keep appearing with different limbs amputated each time.
The professionals charged with accompanying the people and families who face the death of a loved one, especially when this death has been sudden or traumatic, need specific skills to help them comprehend the complexity of the experience, and criteria to intervene in the correct way.
A fish called Yorick and a kitten called Montaigne. A young philosophy student who corners her old professor in the corridors of the faculty. Two teenagers who discover in their respective physical and moral deformities a good reason to get together. A young left wing militant woman who writes letters to Mao.
Ernesto, a writer always trying to find inspiration for his masterpiece, finds an old brass safe that contains a photo of a young couple, Mercedes and Andrés, along with a series of love letters. He begins to investigate the couple's story using the information he finds in their letters.
In an unknown region, lost in the mists of the Middle Ages, lives Baronet Otto Pette, a man committed in body and soul to the ever difficult task of forgetting the past itself. This labour is even harder in the case of someone like the baronet who, after suffering disappointment after disappointment, crossed over the tenuous border of skepticism a long time ago.
The story of "The magic candles" has not been written by anyone yet. It cannot be found in any bookshop. Only my father knows it: Once in Bondadia, a craftsman made two candles, Fidelón and Luz Bella, two magical candles turning anyone who would come close to them into a good person. What a change occurred in the country! Until one day ...