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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.
Volunteering—praised by some, reviled by others, but well known by all—represents the possibility for every person to have a home, a roof over their heads, irrespective of faith, or where they come from, or economic circumstances, or any other factor; they can feel recognition for who they are at the same time as enjoying the benefits of being a citizen.
Ricard Moja, chairman of the foundation of a prestigious cultural institution, diverts a large sum of money for his personal use. The artist Res Benito is preparing a huge mural on the orgasm, which, according to him, is the origin of song, for the Liceu theatre. Three barbers give him the hair he needs for his work.
Nico and his grandfather Rodrigo go fishing together, read books, talk about art, go for bike rides and do Maths homework. That's when they're not escaping from piranhas, of course. With our grandparents we can learn, have fun, express ourselves and transmit feeling and a sense of complicity from one generation to the next.
A while ago the journalist Ana R. Cañil began to follow the trail of a terrible story: that of post war prisoners whose children were taken away from them by guards and shut away in seminaries and convents or given up for adoption.
"Your journey has led you to the deepest part of the forest.
Welcome to my kingdom, wanderer.
I am pleased you've come because you, like us, are a creature of nature, these are your brothers, and this is your home, your inheritance.
Do not burn down trees, do not put animals in cages, do not dirty the river and do not pollute the air.