Historic Fiction
Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418807954
Fault Lines
A terrible event took place during the childhood of the great-grandmother and the consequences will spread throughout generations. It is a book about the impact of political and family events, about the way in which memories are transmitted, about how History influences private stories... This is ho..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788419521453
Monsters
In the realm of appearances, monsters are not what we think. The Louvre, 1655. Catherine Beauvais, known as Cateau, la borgnesse, displays her striking ugliness through the corridors of the most beautiful palace in the world. Catherine has unique knowledge of plants thanks to the recipes passed down..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416750528
Mudbound
Set at the end of World War II, Mudbound tells the story of two families from the South of the United States who, despite the fact that the social hierarchy makes them enemies, are united by the farmlands they share in the Mississippi delta. / Es 1946, y Laura McAllan, una mujer de ciudad, trata de..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416622399
Mudbound
Set at the end of World War II, Mudbound tells the story of two families from the South of the United States who, despite the fact that the social hierarchy makes them enemies, are united by the farmlands they share in the Mississippi delta. / Es 1946, y Laura McAllan, una mujer de ciudad, trata de..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418578120
News of the World
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd gives live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for the world news. The captain enjoys the existence of a widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them. He is offered gold to deliver an orphan to San Antoni..
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Brand: Sélector
EAN: 9786074536645
Clouds that Leave their Trace
This story begins in 1899 and is narrated by Robert, the protagonist, who tells us about his mother, and about an abandoned baby who was probably the bastard daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium. He also talks about his father who loses his fortune and the comfortable life he was accustomed to. / ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433998682
Petit Paris
Commissar Polo arrives in Paris following Matthias Bohle, who has stolen four kg of gold from a Spanish industrialist who ordered him to get it out of Spain discretely. The man he is looking for committed suicide by throwing himself on the train tracks... Who does the corpse of the station really be..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433901712
First Blood
On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is Patrick Nothomb and he is the future father of the writer. Startin..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417954314
Kingdoms of Ambition
Adventus Domini, year 1067. In Leon, Queen Sancha, in the presence of her three sons, will be buried in her Pantheon. A few days later, a Norman assassin is heading towards León with the intention of becoming an instrument of the powerful. / Adventus Domini, año 1067. Un espeso manto blanco cubre l..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346279
King Don Pedro
This novel is set in the Spanish fourteenth century, in the historical context of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death. Pedro I of Castilla, called the Cruel by his adversaries and the Justiciero by his followers, is killed by his brother Enrique de Trastamara with the help of the mercenary Bel..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788417971359
Stalingrad
Vasili Grossman wanted to record everything he had experienced during the second World War, the death of his mother and his stepson, and his experience as a war correspondent, in an ambitious two-part novel cycle. The first, started in 1943 and published in 1952 under the title For a Just Cause, had..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418526817
The Story of the Stone or The Dream of the Red Cha
This is the great classic of Chinese literature, "the most famous novel of a literature almost three thousand years old", and, as Borges stated, an imperishable book. The beautiful and tragic story of the love affairs of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in eighteenth-century China, in the twilight of a feuda..
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