Cuentos rusos y otros textos

"A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven decades later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in...

In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life;...

A former actor now living in a mental hospital dreams of creating a play, but what he really wants, if he were not stopped by his own thoughts, is to return to his hometown of Harmada.

Esta historia escrita por Julio Verne en 1892 se tituló originalmente Claudius Bombarnac, y vió la luz por entregas en Le Soleil entre el 10 de octubre y el 7 de diciembre de 1892. Un año después se publicaría la novela en un solo volumen con ilustraciones de León Benett. Claudio Bombarnac, su protagonista, es un reportero francés que, enviado por su periódico, “El siglo XX”, recorre la estepa asiática con destino a Pekín tratando de descubrir cuál de sus compañeros de viaje (un grupo de personajes variopintos, misteriosos, extravagantes, malvados encubiertos o seductores),...