“El buen nombre” dirigida por Mira Nair [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOaA-4Y8tI] “La película narra la historia de la familia Ganguli, cuyo traslado desde Calcuta a Nueva York evoca un perpetuo equilibrio para incorporarse a un nuevo mundo sin olvidar el viejo. Aunque los padres, Ashoke (Irfan Khan) y Ashima (Tabu), añoran a la familia y la cultura que
“Death comes for the Archbishop” by Willa Cather “Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was included on Time Magazine’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as
“A los que aman” dirigida por Isabel Coixet [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSt9rC-ziE] “En el siglo XVIII, a lo largo de una noche, un anciano cuenta la historia de una gran pasión a un hombre joven. La historia de él mismo, ahora el Maestro, en otro tiempo el Médico, y de su amor silencioso y definitivo por Matilde. Una
“Drown” by Junot Díaz “The 10 tales in this intense debut collection plunge us into the emotional lives of people redefining their American identity. Narrated by adolescent Dominican males living in the struggling communities of the Dominican Republic, New York and New Jersey, these stories chronicle their outwardly cool but inwardly anguished attempts to recreate
“Animales de compañía” por Juan Manuel de Prada “Colección de artículos, cuyo hilo fundamental es la Modernidad, con sus desconcierto y movedizas tendencias, sus utopías y sus nostalgias, sus tópicos y sus iconos: los zapatos de tacón de aguja, internet, las pin-ups, los últimos estrenos de Hollywood, el cine cutre, los terrores cotidianos, las tiranías
“Concursante” dirigida por Rodrigo Cortés [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H22OCZGXzo] “Martín Circo Martín, joven profesor asociado de Historia de la Economía, acaba de convertirse en el ganador del mayor premio jamás concedido en la Historia de la Televisión, valorado en 500 millones de pesetas, más de 3 millones de euros en premios de todo tipo. Sin embargo, pronto descubre
“As I lay dying” by William Faulkner “As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. The novel was written in six weeks while Faulkner was working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described by Faulkner as a «tour de force». It is Faulkner’s fifth novel and consistently ranked
“Chilly scenes of winter” by Ann Beattie “Chilly Scenes of Winter has one protagonist, Charles, who pursues Laura in various comic or bittersweet ways. There are no real antagonists, however, nor even any mean-spirited characters, only a series of portraits of attenuated survivors of past emotional scars or disappointments. As Charles lives out his dreary
“All because of a cup of coffee” by Geronimo Stilton “One morning, Geronimo goes out for a cup of coffee and sees the most beautiful rodent. It was love at first sight. But his racing heart makes him stumble and he ends up with his tail in a toaster — how embarrassing! To prove himself,
“City of God: a novel” by E.L. Doctorow “You want ambition? E.L. Doctorow’s City of God starts off not merely with a bang but with the big bang itself, that «great expansive flowering, a silent flash into being in a second or two of the entire outrushing universe.» It doesn’t, to be sure, remain on