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"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." – Junot Diaz
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair.
When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival-and about the reasons to survive.
Miguel Delibes es muy conocido por sus novelas y narraciones, pero también es reconocido porque en ellas destacan sus preocupaciones sociales y su defensa del medio rural, por eso estamos ante un libro que vaticinó con certeza el futuro que nos espera, es un aviso sobre los peligros para el hombre si no se pone coto al despilfarro y abuso de los recursos de la Natu raleza.
El libro es la transcripción del discurso que Miguel Delibes pronunció cuando ingresó en la Real Acade mia Española de la Lengua, en mayo de 1975, y su contenido no tiene nada que ver con reflexiones en torno al lenguaje y su pureza y esplendor, sino que es un alegato claro contra el sentido del progreso entendido como despilfarro y destrucción del entorno. Hay que resaltar el carácter premonitorio y avisador que tiene este discurso de Delibes, ya que en ese año (1975)) estas preocupaciones estaban lejos -en nuestro país- de los movimientos políticos y sociales.
Se aportan datos tan contundentes como estos: entre Europa y Estados Unidos, con un 16% de la población mundial, devoramos el 80% de los recursos de la Tierra, limitados e irrecuperables, que un periódico de gran tirada se come diariamente seis hectáreas de bosques, que el mar Báltico es un pozo de infección, que en todos los mares es imposible la línea de recuperación de la pesca (posibilidad de que se desarrollen más peces que los que se pescan):
Pero a la vez se nos hace reflexionar sobre este progreso que comporta una minimización del hombre, y sobre nuestro papel de mera pieza en este mecanismo de despilfarro y destrucción.
El libro se lee rápidamente, de una sola sentada, es ameno, asequible, sencillo, y las ilustraciones son las justas para deleitarnos unos momentos de lectura verdaderamente placenteros e insustituibles por el consumo de «cosas» a las que el poder nos quiere hacer creer que es el sentido de nuestra vida.
En resumen, Delibes nos hace concluir que en lo único que merece ser «conservador» es en la preservación de la Naturaleza y en mantener un sentido del progreso entendido como ensanchamiento de una conciencia moral universal que rechace los valores del dinero y el valor del hombre como amedrentador y dominador de los demás.
Esta recopilación de nueve cuentos de MIGUEL DELIBES constituye una excelente piedra de toque para el conocimiento de las claves de su obra. Si en «El amor propio de JuanitoOsuna» encontramos una primera tentativa del monólogo interior que prefigura la técnica utilizada posteriormente en «Cinco horas con Mario», los dos ejes espaciales del mundoliterario de Delibes el campo castellano y la vida provinciana se aprecian en «El conejo» y «El perro», por un lado, y «El patio de vecindad» y «Navidad sin ambiente», por otro. Lacapacidad para el costumbrismo se hace patente en «El sol», la presencia de lo sobrenatural en «La fe», y «Las visiones» es un prodigio de dominio del lenguaje popular. Por último, lascuatro constantes que el propio autor ha reconocido en su obra la naturaleza, la muerte, la infancia y el prójimo se conjugan de manera obsesiva en el cuento que da título al volumen,LA MORTAJA, uno de los mejores relatos cortos de la literatura española.
Todo este libro es una pequeña maravilla ya que nadie sabe más que Delibes lo que es Castilla ni escribir en un lenguaje más puro y alejado de toda retórica.
Hay una manera de ser de pueblo como hay una manera de ser de ciudad. En la ciudad las cosas cambian de prisa; los altos edificios, las luces y los automóviles que no cesan, esconden como pueden el apresuramiento atontado de la multidud, los gozos -si los hay- y las penas, si te paras a pensar. Una ciudad pesa tanto que da pavor pensar en ella. El pueblo está ahí, sumiso, apagado, mezclándose cada vez más con el color de la tierra. ¿Que han pasado cuarenta y ocho años y vuelves de las Américas? ¿Y qué? En Castilla no se cuenta por años sino por siglos, y allí estarán esperándote, todo igual, las casas, los árboles, los campos agotados, las gentes envejecidas, el arroyo que pasa entre cañizos y el polvillo de la trilla pegado a los muros. Miguel Delibes sabe amar y sufrir su Castilla tan sola y nos transmite en el primer relato de este libro la vuelta del emigrante a su tierra, porque ser de un pueblo es un don de Dios. EN la pequeña historia La cada de la perdiz roja habla del Barbas, viejo filósofo castellano, escéptico y enraizado a la tierra que conoce sin casi saberlo, las gentes y las perdices, y si no hay más remedio dialoga con el autor. Diálogo claro, bello, que parece venir rozado por el viento del fondo de los siglos.
Chief Inspector Morse, a middle-aged bachelor with a fondness for crossword puzzles, Mozart, and attractive women, investigates a series of suspicious and sinister events at Oxfords Church of St. Frideswide.
In the Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, a decapitated body floats out of the sewer, and former Guild investigator Connor Grey uncovers a conspiracy that may bring down the city's most powerful elite. As the violence escalates, Connor is determined to stop it-with help from one of the most dangerous beings of Faerie. Even if it means unleashing the darkness that burns within him.
It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now – and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again.
One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets of history at anyone who won't run away and dispensing his own signature brand of Sunshine State justice.
Along the way he and his sidekick, Coleman, attract a growing following of the nation's top college students… and a mysterious gang that leaves a trail of young bodies in their wake.
Are the kids safer under Serge's protection? Or does being with him put them in more peril? The classroom and the pot brownies never prepared them for this.
Which raises more questions: Who's the guy studying satellite photos? Where did the protected witness go? When did Coleman get all those trophies? Why are the Feds hot on everyone's trail? How did the burnt corpse end up by the pool? What's the best way to keep beer cool on the beach?
Then there are the coke smugglers gone legit and a pair of the most dangerously sexy bartenders to ever mix a rum runner. Throw in some dirty dancing contests, illicit drugs, rockin' tunes, screamin' sports cars, bungee rides, pawned class rings, and church breakfasts, and you've got a potent concoction that keeps the hotel's concierge up all night stopping people from falling off the balconies.
Want even more? Serge says, "You got it!"
After years of quiet, a legendary Miami kingpin from the anything-goes eighties is suddenly back in the news… along with one of the state's most psychotic homicidal monsters, every bit as criminally insane as Serge – except without the morals.
The mysteries continue to mount: How did Coleman end up with even more disciples than Serge? Can kids successfully climb fences while carrying pizzas? Will Serge survive the carnage, armed with a GPS and a kiddie pool?
All will soon be answered – and of course every last moment is caught on tape as Serge creates his most excellent documentary ever, the making of Gator A-Go-Go.
Pack the cooler, load the car, and head to where the water is warm for a spring vacation you won't soon forget – no matter how much you might try!
Ingram "Los Angeles Daily News" calls "Patriots" "enormously entertaining", while "Kirkus Review" has high praise for the novel's "punchy action and realistic consequences". The rugged individualists who have settled the frontier planet of Greenwood are threatened by politicians and bean counters on Earth, who see Greenwood only in terms of profit. The settlers must set aside their local differences in order to meet the challenge and preserve their world and way of life.
New from 'a gifted writer' (VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.
As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos's servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter – a plot against the life of the king.
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds."
– Wall Street Journal
Many thousands of readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964, and featuring such fascinating tales as The Minority Report (the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's film), Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others. Here, readers will find Dick's initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work.
Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle and in the last year of his life, the now-classic film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep?
The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." – Kirkus Reviews
Next in the swashbuckling series featuring mystery-solving Musketeers.
In a search for his apprentice's killer, Musketeer Porthos rallies his friends to discover who was responsible, pursuing the truth even as he puts his own life in danger.
Science fiction's most expert dreamers envision the computerized, high-risk games of the future in this winning collection. Features Robert Sheckley, Cory Doctorow, Kate Wilhelm, Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Jonathan Letham, Gwyneth Jones, William Browning Spencer, Allen Steele, Terry Dowling, and Jason Stoddard.
El experimento más escalofriante de todos los tiempos está a punto de comenzar. El presidente lo ignora por completo. La prensa también. Se trata de un experimento secreto, que se está llevando a cabo en una base militar de Nuevo México y que puede resultar catastrófico. Nadie sabe nada tampoco sobre el inquietante hallazgo de un arqueólogo en la Gran Pirámide de Egipto, que puede cambiar el mundo. Lo único cierto en esta cadena de enigmas y revelaciones que hielan la sangre es que algo terrible está por ocurrir, una catástrofe que la consejera en asuntos científicos del presidente deberá evitar, cueste lo que cueste.
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