Libros del Asteroide
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EAN: 9788417007195
Mourning
In this new book from Eduardo Halfon's literary project, the Guatemalan author, always investigating the mechanisms of identity construction, delves into those that originate in fraternal relationships: mourning as a combat that begins with the birth of a brother and mourning also as grief for his d..
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EAN: 9788410178090
Properties of Thirst
Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S. builds an internment camp in Owens Val..
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EAN: 9788419089465
I Feel Bad About My Neck
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as an older woman. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, an..
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EAN: 9788417977825
Yesterday
Sándor Lester is exiled in a cold European city where he leads a lonely and monotonous life. He is immersed in an alienating routine at the factory where he works, he spends his free time writing, hanging out with people in the same situation as him or in the company of Yolande, a woman he doesn't l..
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EAN: 9788419089052
I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron is a genre unto herself. Renowned for her scathing and intelligent wit, her insightful and comedic analyzes of the female experience, and her ability to detect the absurdities of modern life, she is one of America's most beloved writers and filmmakers, and her work, one of the most influ..
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EAN: 9788416213665
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classi..
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EAN: 9788417977559
Song
One cold morning in January 1967, in the midst of the civil war in Guatemala, a Jewish and Lebanese businessman is kidnapped in a dead end street in the capital. Nobody ignores that Guatemala is a surrealist country, he had affirmed years before. The narrator, named Eduardo Halfon, has to travel to ..
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EAN: 9788419089823
The Distance Between Us
Walking through London, Stella comes across a man who takes her back to an unbearable moment in her past. This encounter disturbs her so much that she immediately leaves work and, without telling anyone, she settles in a remote place in Scotland; Only her unpredictable sister Nina, to whom she has b..
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EAN: 9788419089199
Any Child
In the texts gathered in this new book by Eduardo Halfon, fatherhood –with its vulnerabilities and strengths– is often the lens through which the author revisits some of the favorite themes of his literary universe. Halfon writes about childhood, uprooting, death, the vocation of a writer or the sea..
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EAN: 9788419089410
The Marriage Portrait
Florence, mid-16th century. Lucrezia, third daughter of the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici, is a quiet and perceptive girl, with a singular talent for drawing, who she enjoys in her discreet and quiet place in the palazzo. But when her sister Maria dies, just before marrying Alfonso d'Este, eldest son..
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EAN: 9788419089878
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
A moving account of the brutal persecution of the Uyghur community in China and the author’s escape. Since 2017, the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic group in Xinjiang, have faced horrific repression under a sophisticated surveillance system. Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uyghur poet and filmmaker, was detain..
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EAN: 9788419089809
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
After studying a master's degree in Clinical Psychology, Dasha Kiper worked as a caregiver for a Holocaust survivor suffering from Alzheimer's. Based on that experience and her subsequent work with caregivers of patients with dementia, Kiper proposes a new way of seeing and understanding the symbiot..
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