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Bia de Medici, illegitimate daughter of Cosme I, Duke of Florence, describes the last days of her life in the pages of a kind of posthumous diary which is found amongst her relics when her tomb is opened several centuries after her death. It is not easy to be a woman in the 16th century. Outside the golden cage of the palace is a seething world full of dangers as well as freedom.
Literature and music go hand in hand in this music-tale (book + CD), a recreation of the traditional tale by Charles Perrault by Xosé A. Neira Cruz, illustrated by Rodrigo Chao.
The author brings together three personalities as the protagonists of a story which each one reads in turn, with a formula which is repeated like a chorus. The three turn to a book to fill a need for excitement, entertainment and learning which television doesn't offer them. The illustrations are flat, schematic, with intense colours and striking contrasts.
An 18th century map that hides a secret. A letter written by a man at death's door. The ancient legend of a city sunk beneath the waters of Lake Antela. Ancient towers that guard the borders of a different world. A world where armies of mosquitoes still hide and await their King Arthur. A world in which time does not exist.
An intense, personal and profound book of poems. The central theme is passion, by way of an intimate feeling of solitude. Just when we think we've understood its content, we start to establish this passion and have to try and understand it afresh.
Night, a sleepless man, a sleeping woman. He abandons himself to images that only blossom between waking and sleeping and feels that "insomnia is a dark animal with eyes as red as embers".
Among the many synonyms for "Dark" we find (Oxford English Dictionary): mysterious, enigmatic, sinister, evil. This anthology is a faithful reflection of how each of the authors in this anthology sees darkness and terror.
West, You Will Cry For Me is a novel tracing the investigation of a small event as it gradually opens onto the greatest jihadist threat ever suffered by a country.