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"It is a lovely story. From the description to the poetry. It's a universal story. From the image, to the ideal and the essence. It is a magical story. We have already visualised what we have to Be. It's a story about teaching. The road always awaits returns. It's a unique story.
Pablo Ramos brings together all the ghosts from his past, which are also those of a society in which alcoholism and drug addiction form part of the fabric of daily life for its families and neighbourhoods. He brings them together and exposes them to show how it really is to live as an addict, the raw day-to-day behind the stigmatisation and complacency.
Black Grass tells the story of a group of young people who discover a secret organisation that plans to put an end to civilisation using a new species of plant. Starting with a new species of grass, modified in a laboratory and commercialised as a kind of drink, the organisation wants to take control of society.
This book addresses different types of brothers and sisters and the relationships they have, using a fun and light approach with colourful and warm illustrations.
Hermonías is a book to encourage learning through playing with the rhythms of language either at home or at school; it's a way for children to interiorise human values such as equality and respect for differences; it's a gift to free the imagination and encourage children to value nature; it's a window opening to motivate the study of other languages.
Right from the novel’s intriguing title –Hotels of Silence –, Javier Vásconez drags us to the brink of horror. For is there anything more chilling than the sound of a child’s cry piercing the night from inside a hotel? However, the greatest achievement of Hotels of Silence is perhaps its ability to trace various stories of desperate humanity in one novel.