Ciudad de lobos

The village of Todos Os Santos is under threat from developers who want to clear the village and the forest for farmland. Meanwhile, the village bull won't dance the traditional bumba meu boi and the pregnant Catarina has developed a taste for impossible foods that her husband Francisco must get for her. Can the spirits of the forest help our heroes save their environment, their way of life, and themselves? Fantasy and reality dance through this spectacular Amazonian adventure, inspired by the life and politics of Brazilian folk hero Chico Mendes. Amazonia ran at the Young Vic Theatre, London ...

El protagonista de esta novela, Walter Arias, es una mezcla de filósofo surrealista y de psicoanalista antifreudiano, de romántico y de obseso sexual, de arlequín y de monstruo, de moralista y delincuente. Mezcla, en fin, de todo aquello que no puede ni debe mezclarse. "Mi pensamiento oscila entre Descartes y el barón de Munchausen", confiesa Walter Arias, precursor del movimiento filosófico llamado walterismo, una de las corrientes espirituales menos espirituales de cuantas conoció el pasado milenio. Burlón y despiadado, visionario y reflexivo, humorístico y macabro, Walter Arias nos ...

Cinco relatos magistrales que demuestran una vez más por qué Frederick Forsyth está considerado el maestro del suspense y del género de espionaje Frederick Forsyth regresa al terreno de sus grandes bestsellers. Y para Forsyth esto significa historias de engaños, de misterio, de venganza y, sobre todo, de intriga. Estos cinco relatos originales constituyen una obra impresionante, con ambientaciones que van desde Londres hasta Siena y desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el lejano Oeste. Todos confirman, si cabe, el reconocido talento del autor para narrar historias que subyugan...

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...