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What is the difference between a woman in the twenty first century and in previous epochs? Does gender equality mean she has to renounce her different point of view and her values? Postmodernity offers a new integrating paradigm which overcomes the dualist vision of opposition and suggests kinder, less aggressive ways of living. Nowadays feminine energy is becoming more prominent.
In the wake of the acclaimed short story book "Los peces de la amargura" (The fishes of sorrow), The Guardian of the Ford provides eight stories written in implacable and lucid style. The circumstances and life experiences of the characters are taughtly drawn, underlining all the drama and heroism that the human soul contains, as well as the meanness, atrocity and absurdity.
A hundred years ago, some workmen discovered an elegantly furnished room in the tunnels under the Opera Garnier in Paris. It contained the compositions and instruments of the legendary Phantom of the Opera, although these effects were soon to be dispersed amongst the city's antique shops.
In Paris, a couple is about to marry in the spring of 1940, but the Wehrmacht invades France, and he, an exiled Spanish Republican, is detained by the Gestapo and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. She collaborates with the Allied secret services, prepared to do whatever it takes to save her fiancé’s life.
The Visitor from the Other Side is a fantasy story in which three very different teenagers have to deal with everyday situations that will be very familiar to the readers (bullying, romantic crushes, family relationships).
Young Erhard, from a well off German family and a close friend of Heinrich Himmler, is sent to Poland as a Nazi spy. He disguises himself as a Jew, even circumcising himself, and enters into a world of stratagems, manipulations, betrayals and deceit that end most unexpectedly.
Antón likes to draw. One day, as he draws a ladybird, something magical happens: it starts to fly and becomes real. The ladybird plays with Antón and introduces him to an entire fantastic world. It draws a sheep with its wings as it flies, and then this too becomes alive; with its wool, the sheep traces the outline of a duck which, suddenly, starts to walk.
Ideaspropias Editorial presents Elaboración y exposición de comidas en el bar-cafetería [THE MAKING AND SHOWING OF MEALS IN THE BAR-CAFETERIA], an evaluative work on how to prepare food in the bar-cafeteria that includes some simple recipes used in catering establishments.