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Palim VI is the son of one of the builders on the Tower of Babel, and he discovers his immortality when he survives the fire at the Babylon library. From then on, he adopts a nomadic life that takes him from Homer’s Greece to the Spain of Felipe III, tsarist Russia, 1920s Paris, and a Buenos Aires that is polluted with fantastical and culturalist writers.
In this exciting new detective novel by Lorenzo Silva we meet the now famous investigator from the Bevilacqua Guardia Civil (more incisive and ingenious than ever in his comments and attitude) and his colleague Virginia Chamorro, along with a new character, Arnau, a young man they have to train.
It hides; you can’t see it, but it’s always there, observing you, watching you, spying on everything you do and say. It’s not a vampire, but it feeds off you, it depends on you, that’s why it hides and uses you. And, meanwhile, it grows and grows without stopping, like a parasite.
Pablo was in love with Guille. Guille was in love with Pablo. Unfortunately they lived in different cities, so Guille left Pablo and broke his heart. Years later, their paths crossed again, but Pablo isn't thinking about falling in love again.So why have they kissed and why can't he stop thinking about him? It's said that first love never dies, and he knows that all too well.
Finding documented evidence of the historical reality of Jesus of Nazareth from Christian sources in their Jewish context is equivalent, by implication, to demonstrating the error of the mythologists who confuse the Jesus of messianic tradition with the divine Christ in Paul’s epistles.
This book offers us an overview of a problem which has been man-made and well documented, and has persisted throughout the history of humanity: hunger. At the end of this journey from antiquity up to the present day, the author concludes that whatever the mode of production and the way of life, the bitter pangs of hunger have been experienced everywhere.
This book tells the seven-year story of a family through the crockery in their kitchen, which bit by bit gets broken, lost or used for other things, and demonstrates the losses, discoveries and changes that the family go through. The author won the Barco de Vapor award (Steamboat award) in 2012 and the Inventions in Children’s and Young Adult Narratives prize in 2011.
In this rigorous and accessible essay, the renowned theologian Josep Maria Rovira Belloso reflects on the basis and the role of Christian Faith upon today’s society, both at an individual and collective level.
'La fea burguesía' offers a brutal portrait of the so-called middle- and privileged-classes, represented by five marriages in search of success, summed up by obtaining money, and proved by the constant acquisition of goods.
You're always rushing around, dragging yourself from place to place, and you can't hide the fact you feel everything's your fault. You've already worked out that the so-called work-life balance is a myth. You try to be the best mother you can, but there's always someone around to tell you you should be doing things differently.