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A stimulating book to read and look at. It combines the discovery of everyday objects, nature and creativity with the similarities between the five most important geometric shapes. At the end you will be able to play by making your own geometric shapes, just like the author!
During the course of his life Pablo Neruda wrote countless poems dedicated to every person, animal, mineral and object in the universe. After his death, poems kept appearing to fill more books, in case anyone had been left out. Of all these later books, the Book of Questions is one of the most exceptional.
An audacioius story surrounds this Visitors' Book. Found by an English traveller at the end of the 19th century in the library of the Monastery of Mount Athos, the original manuscript was copied, translated and, such is fate, sold by the traveller's heirs as a legacy of unimportant papers, now considered to be lost.
Self-help with a touch of humour for:
Everyone who believes that eating is not the most basic necessity
Shy singletons who need a little push
The recently separated, whose old methods are no longer infallible
Those who left their last partners ten years ago with the fatal words "I need to be alone", and who have been alone ever since
The disturbing story of a relationship. What happens to fairies who can't find true love? Lili believes in fairies, Marlene doesn't. Marlene and Lili, sanity and madness, invite us into the front row of the disturbing story, set in Barcelona, of the relationship between their mother—a Berlin teacher of Catalan—and "Mom's new girlfriend".
Eight narratives almost entirely featuring women, daughters of pop culture, who live under their crowns of an "existential literary and musical narrative" and yearn for fascination. For these women, some young and some not so young, photography, music, song, art and beauty are not things that bring them levels of pleaseure, but a way of being and understanding the world.
Werner is a member of Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth as the country prepares for war. His family has a great secret, and when it is revealed Werner is forced to flee across Europe. His flight takes him first to Trieste, and then to France. Lertxundi alternates reflection, action and suspense in this captivating novel, leading the reader to a fascinating denouement.
Lisbon, November 1942. Portugal has received an ultimatum to go to war. The terror of Nazi occupation or Allied bombing takes over the city. In one long, single night, thousands of refugees from all over Europe wait for the boat Boa Esperança (good hope) to depart so they can save themselves.
There has always been a very fertile relationship between literature and cinema. The first great directors, such as Griffith and Eisenstein claimed that they worked like storytellers of realist fiction and, in turn, great literary authors have recognized cinematic techniques in their work.