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This little story, which is not even a story, is about a very special gift, a tiny little book like the one we are reading, which will go everywhere with us and make us feel like there's always someone with us. It is a book with loads of gifts and nice touches. With this book you'll be able to enjoy the small things in life that are so important.
Intercultural education is the graat challenge of 21st-century society. This book is designed in a way that the theory and pracice of intercultural education are closely linked, so allowing reader to not only reflect upon the subject, but also, more importantly, to act.
Paco Castañón, an expert in the subject, becomes interested in a batch of old comics being sold on the Internet. They lead him to Brussels, where he follows the trail of the author and discovers the existence of audio tapes which go with the comics. The artist was an exiled teacher who took part in the Second Spanish Republic's Pedagogic Missions.
Three White Coffins is a thriller in which a solitary, unsociable guy is forced to take on the dentity of an opposition party leader and go through a variety of risky situations in an attempt to overthrow the totalitarian regme of a Latin American country called Miranda. This bizarre thriller plot is, however, a sort of empty structure, a skeleton in which the novel grows widly and unpredictably, gushing from the mouth of the hero. The outrageous, unhinged, hilarious narrator uses all his words to question, ridicule and destroy reality (and to reconstruct it like new from scratch).
Mysterious murders, corrupt sherrifs, evangelical missionaries, delusions of persecution… Dark and disquieting, Tú me has matado is the first comic by David Sánchez, partially published in the magazine El Manglar (Dibbuks), keeping more than one reader up all night.