Ali Smith
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La cuarta novela del Cuarteto estacional del finalista del Premio Man Booker, Ali Smith, es "un poema en prosa en alabanza de la memoria, el perdón, la broma y aprovechar el momento" (The New York Times) En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía....
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«Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. [...] Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no...
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La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual. Otoño es el primer título de esta tetralogía. El Reino Unido está hecho pedazos, dividido tras un verano histórico. Ambientada justo después del referéndum del brexit, la novela nos da a entender que la sociedad que describía...
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La historia universal reúne doce historias que recorren un año completo. Ali Smith es una de las mejores escritoras del Reino Unido. Este libro, en el que nos encontramos con algunos de sus mejores textos, contiene doce cuentos en los que el amor, la tristeza y, muy especialmente, los libros y los libreros son los protagonistas.
Doce cuentos que recorren un año completo, comenzando en febrero, el mes en que transcurre el primero, «La historia...
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Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, here is a tale of change for the modern world....
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"Ahora no queremos Información. Lo que queremos es desconcierto. Lo que queremos es repetición. Lo que queremos es repetición. {... } Queremos que aquellos a quienes llamamos extranjeros se sientan extranjeros necesitamos que les quede claro que no pueden tener derechos a menos que nosotros lo digamos". ¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los...
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"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...
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At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing...
9) Artful
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Presents a meditative collection of writings on the nature of art and storytelling and incorporates tribute elements to iconic writers and artists throughout history.
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For a thousand years the mages of the Empire have flourished through sorcery. But an ancient spell forged by the semi-divine simurgh is draining magic from the world. They call it the Ban. And the Emperor dares not defy the simurgh.
The decision might not be the Emperor's for long. Powerful lords in distant lands are taking preserving sorcery into their own hands. One particular sailor, Akai, is thrilled to help a lord on just such a quest. Though...
11) The Broken Land
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As the war deepens and spreads, Zanthred is a newly minted hero, a man of note. But jealous rivals on his own side might be as much a threat as the foe.
On the other side of the world, Akai tries to rally support from the most unlikely of creatures: Humans. But is he to treat these strange, short-lived brutes as barbarians who cannot be yoked, or children who might be taught?
The struggle continues in this second book in an ongoing epic of magic...
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220 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...
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Deception-the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others -is the subject of The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. All winter long the snow has been falling on the village. The sun rises late in the day, and once it does, there is little to do but trade tales. This year...
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We can go on with our life's future in our hands, which aren't big enough for all the problems we are going to endure. Life's challenges have to have spiritual guidance at all times. We can't assume our family friends and co-workers etc will have our answers. Sometime our Pastor, Deacons and Elders will not be able to help us they may be able to comfort us during a tragic time but only God have all the answers. God will allow tragic times to enter...
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Loulabub really likes monkeys, in fact she loves them.
One morning she decides to visit the zoo, along the way she meets lots of friendly animals. But as nice as they are, it's really a monkey she'd like to meet.
Will she find her favourite animal before it's time to go home?
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"You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed."
-St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 311, 8
Growing up on the northernmost edge of the African continent, young Augustine had never known a life...