Mary Murnó y el Fantasmario

Después de pedir un deseo a los espíritus elementales del agua, Jorge conocerá a Las Cuatro Órdenes, una organización secreta encargada de mantener el equilibrio entre los mundos espiritual y material. Entenderá que para ser parte de ella, más allá de enfrentar a seres fantásticos y sobrenaturales, deberá descubrir su más grande virtud, aquella que ni él sabe que posee.

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?

Excerpt from La Descendencia de Lope de Vega Pero de flores y de perlas hecho, entraba Carlos a llamarme, y daba luz a mis ojos, brazos a mi pecho. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Otra mirada, otros contextos, otra escritura para la critica sobre Roberto Arlt; en este libro, por primera vez, sus textos son puestos en un contexto literario (y politico) internacional. La "lectura global" de Close no solo conecta a Arlt con Dostoievsky (gesto repetido en la critica) sino que lo pone en el marco general de la "ficcion conspirativa" junto con otros escritores europeos y norteamericanos, especialmente Baroja (pero tambien Turguenev, Conrad, Henry James). Asociar a Arlt con Baroja no es muy frecuente, a pesar de las ultimas referencias del mismo Arlt a su obra: los dos, dice...