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The story of the abuse of a young girl is told with extraordinary literary force in this uncomfortable and necessary book. A single gesture was enough to turn her into a helpless calf. She was small, too small to know that she had been put in a place that was not right for her. The abyss filled her sea-like eyes and her gaze was full of shock. Her house became a nothing place.
Paul of Tarsus once appealed to Philemon on the behalf Onesimus, an escaped slave. We know this from what is the shortest of Saint Paul's epistles. However, we have no idea whether Philemon took any notice and welcomed the escaped slave into his home, or if instead, he ignored Paul's pleas and punished Onesimus as the law dictated.
Someone died today, and I’m responsible. But nothing ever happens just like that. Lots of other things happened first. Like the first time I found myself in front of a mirror. The summer I chose my real name. The year at secondary school when I decided I’d had enough of everything and everyone. The casting session where I got chosen. The success of my TV series. All my followers.
GLOBITOS are creatures with a special charm: gentle, warm and loving. But their naive approach to life gets them in trouble sometimes. It is the kind, friendly PAPLINIAS, who love the GLOBITOS, who intervene when the strict, fussy TREMENDOS come along to put things back in order. One afternoon GLOBITO goes to his friends' house to have chocolate with churros.
Ramon Besora has travelled a long way to arrive at this tender, luminous poetry collection, the result of his long love affair with words and the poetic games that they can play.
In the faraway kingdom of Asgard live the most powerful gods of Nordic mythology. One in particular was famous for his great feats, ferociousness and exceptional strength - Thor, the great god of thunder. With his magic hammer Thor protected gods and humans from the threat of the terrible giants, who lived on the frozen peaks of Jötunheim.
Maybe it’s because it’s a sharp, dirty parody set in a provincial town in England, or maybe it’s because of its lewd, irrelevant and sometimes outright provocative language; whatever it is, The Kindness of a murderer immediately brings to mind the magnificent film comedies of Guy Ritchie and Danny Boyle.
Paris, 1623. Secret letters. Lost jewels. A secret code. A Queen and a court painter. Camogli, Italy, 2010. Ann Carrington, a history teacher from the US, is on holiday. She has arranged a meeting with a Professor Scopetta to show him some of Maria de Medici's unpublished letters and reveal a secret, but things get complicated when she discovers the professor has been murdered.
A gusty wind, a cat and a rabbit. A King who becomes a Gink. A snail that says hello. A whale who travels in a foam chariot. Birds who escape from their cage. A little girl who speaks with the wind. A father who returns happy from his travels with a story for his daughter: the words the wind blew away.
The notes of “Adiós Nonino”; the tears of Máxima de Holanda during her tryst with Prince William; the photo that she discovers, among the guests, the face of a dangerous activist daughter of a German banker. So begins this frenetic marathon, inspired by xenophobic and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe today.