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Esta absorbente novela relata la historia del nacimiento de los famosos gemelos, el guerrero Caramon y el mago Raistlin, y el admirable papel que juega su hermana, Kitiara, en su crianza. Sin embargo, las tempranas vivencias de la muchacha con mercenarios y la creciente fascinación que el Mal ejerce sobre ella, la llevan a unirse a un forastero bribón y a una banda de aventureros cuyos destinos están entrelazados con el suyo.Por otra parte, Kit, obsesionada con el recuerdo de su padre solámnico, le seguirá la pista incansablemente. Al final, el lema de Kitiara Uth Matar: «La espada es la única verdad» se convertirá en su triunfo y también en su caída.<
Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are
once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth’s
wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists — a
small, clannish group of families — have become the ruling elite by controlling
all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect
translators for all the galaxies' languages.
Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by
her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the
children’s language education, running the compound, and caring for the
elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past
childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover
is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by
word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men’s
control.
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Con 18 años, Maquesta Nar-Thon acaba de ofrecerse voluntaria para capitanear el Perechon en una misión en la que está en juego la vida de su padre. El jefe minotauro Attat ha administrado al padre de Maq un veneno de efecto retardado y retendrá el antídoto hasta que Maq capture un morkoth, un siniestro monstruo marino, para incorporarlo a su zoológico privado, Attat envía con ella a un minotauro renegado llamado Bas-Ohn Koraf, a un guerrero umbra y a Tailonna, una elfa de mar.En el curso de su travesía, el Perechon será abordado por piratas, atacado por diablillos del Mar Sangriento y asaltado por kuo-toas. Maq deberá enfrentarse a estos enemigos y demostrar su valía a la tripulación. Y en cada uno de esos lances, la joven tendrá siempre presente la imagen de su padre moribundo.<
Recipient of three French literary awards, Mathias Énard's follow-up to the critically acclaimed is a timely novel about a young Moroccan boy caught up in the turbulent events of the Middle East, and a possible murder.
Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lekhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangiers not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.
Lekhdar's transformations — from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner — take place against the backdrop of some of the most important events of the past few years: the violence and exciting eruption of the Arab Spring and the devastating collapse of Europe's economy.
If all that isn't enough, Lekhdar reunites with a childhood friend — one who is planning an assassination, a murder Lekhdar opposes.
A finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt, solidifies Énard's place as one of France's most ambitious and keyed-in novelists of this century. This novel may even take 's place in Christophe Claro's bold pronouncement that Énard's earlier work is "the novel of the decade, if not of the century."
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Caramon, Sturm y Tasslehoff emprenden un viaje por mar para llevar a cabo un encargo de Raistlin. Durante la travesía, un vendaval de origen mágico los transporta a miles de kilómetros de distancia, hacia el Mar Sangriento Oriental. En Solace, Raistlin convence a Flint y Tanis para que los tres realicen un peligroso viaje a Mithas, el reino de los minotauros. Su misión consistirá, no sólo en rescatar a sus amigos, sino en derrotar al Amo de la Noche, quien pretende que Sargonnas, el Dios de la Venganza, entre en el mundo y ayude a los minotauros a conseguir el dominio de Ansalon, para ello piensa sacrificar a una victima propiciatoria que no es ni más ni menos que Kitiara Uth Matar.<
From the author of the Man Booker Prize— winning literary sensation and long-time Globe and Mail bestseller , comes a dazzling, seductive new collection of stories.
“Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s;. . her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O’Brien’s.” — Colm Tóibín
A rich collection of sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of the ordinary defeats and unexpected delights that grow out of the bonds between husbands and wives, mothers and children, and intimate strangers.
Bringing together in a single elegant edition new stories as well as a selection of stories never before published in Canada (from her UK published The Portable Virgin, 1991), exhibits the unsettling, carefully drawn reality, the subversive wit, and the awkward tenderness that mark Anne Enright as one of the most thrillingly gifted writers of our time.
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Como si ser atacado por los trasgos y un horrible trol no hubiera sido suficiente, Jared está siendo el blanco de Dedalete. Simon cuida aun grifo herido y muy malhumorado en la cochera de la casa. Y Mallory está convencida de que deshaciéndose del Cuaderno de campo del Mundo Fantástico de Arthur Spiderwick las cosas volverán a la normalidad. Sin embargo, ésta no es la mejor opción, ya que los seres del Mundo Fántastico no dejan de surgir por todas partes y el libro será la única protección de los hermanos Grace. Pero ¿por qué todos los seres fantásticos ansían el Cuaderno? Sólo la chiflada y anciana tía Lucinda sabe la respuesta.<
Spanning thirty years and three continents, tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigan family, and her four children.
Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and retreat to her room. In the years that follow, the Madigan children leave one by one: Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Constance for a hospital in Limerick, where petty antics follow simple tragedy; Emmet for the backlands of Mali, where he learns the fragility of love and order; and Hanna for modern-day Dublin and the trials of her own motherhood. When Christmas Day reunites the children under one roof, each confronts the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home. is a major work of fiction about the battles we wage for family, faith, and love.
"Enright's razor-sharp writing turns every ordinary detail into a weapon, to create a story that cuts right to the bone". New York Review of Books
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El dios de la Guerra ha muerto en su ataque a Tantras, y Medianoche y sus aliados han recuperado la primera de las Tablas del Destino —en las que el Sumo Hacedor grabó las normas que rigen el equilibrio de Faerun—, buscadas con ansia por los dioses caídos pues es el único medio de recuperar la gloria perdida, y también por los humanos para salvar a los Reinos del caos.<
Para Evereska, el último refugio de los elfos en Faerun, se trata de una batalla por la supervivencia. Para los Elegidos de Mystra es una fuerza que rivaliza con su diosa por el dominio de la magia. Para los reinos humanos de Faerun supone un cambio permanente en el equilibrio del poder. Para una raza perdida de poderosos archimagos es una montaña flotante a la que consideran su hogar.<
The Wild Things — based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control.<
Cyric el Loco, que traicionó a sus amigos Medianoche y Kelemvor y trató de destruirlos. Que se transformó en dio y ahora difunde mentiras y urde intrigas por todos los rincones de Faerun. Que es el señor del Asesinato, el Príncipe de las Mentiras y... está loco.<
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.<
En las inhóspitas ruinas de Tilverton, los demonios acechan en las sombras.En Evereska y Cormyr, las alianzas se vienen abajo.En el desierto de Anauroch, calcinado por el sol, se establece un imperio de oscuridad.El destino se decide en el alma de un elfo torturado.<
From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.
In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at his chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions.
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La lente oscura es un antiguo oráculo capaz de concentrar la magia del sol, que los últimos caballeros enanos robaron y ocultaron por el bien de un nuevo mundo.En su obsesión por convertirse en rey-hechicero, Tithian de Tyr no se detendrá ante nada para conseguir hacerse con la lente oscura. Únicamente Agis de Asticles, que también desea apoderarse de ella con el buen fin de destruir al dragón que aterroriza Athas, se interpone entre el monarca y su ambición.Pero… si ambos hombres no vencen su odio mutuo, caerán en manos de los gigantes de cabeza de bestia que custodian el Oráculo de obsidiana.<
The first book in Louise Erdrich's highly acclaimed "Native American" trilogy that includes "The Beet Queen," "Tracks," and "The Bingo Palace," re-sequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters."A dazzling series of family portraits…. This novel is simply about the power of love." "-Chicago Tribune"<
El tirano Kalak ha regido durante más de mil años los destinos de millones de seres en Tyr. Los poderes que lo han hecho inmortal han corrompido y desecado las tierras y los bosques.Ahora, Kalak quiere asombrar al mundo con sus Juegos. Hace capturar a las bestias más fantásticas y salvajes para ser los oponentes de sus esclavos gladiadores, y hará construir un colosal zigurat para colmar su megalomanía y sus ansias de poder.<
For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force.
In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share.
"This book is a treasure and a delight."-"Minneapolis Star Tribune"
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