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“Atonement” by Ian McEwan “On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’ s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a crime that will change all
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“When will there be good news?” by Kate Atkinson “Three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls «an absolute must-read.»” Extraido de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/16/crime http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/books/info/?t=When-Will-There-Be-Good-News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Will_There_Be_Good_News%3F Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los materiales de
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“The Powerbook” by Jeanette Winterson “The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the
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“Los guardianes del libro” por Geraldine Brooks “Los guardianes del libro tiene lugar después de la guerra de Bosnia, cuando Hanna, una joven bibliófila, se traslada a Sarajevo para restaurar un tesoro perdido. Ya en Bosnia comenzará a trabajar en la restauración de la Haggadah de Sarajevo —un libro de oraciones judío— para tratar de
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“Un sueño de la noche de San Juan” por William Shakespeare “El mundo cómico de Shakespeare empieza a incorporarse a nuestra serie con sus dos piezas, quizá, más caracterizadas, en sentidos muy diversos: Un sueño de la noche de San Juan, deslumbrante fantasía en que se alternan planos de magia y planos de realidad, y
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“My sister lives on the mantelpiece” by Annabel Pitcher “Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a ‘Fresh New Start’. Five years ago his sister’s twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief; Jasmine turns
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“Antigua Luz” por John Banville «Billy Gray era mi mejor amigo y me enamoré de su madre. Puede que amor sea una palabra demasiado fuerte, pero no conozco ninguna más suave que pueda aplicarse.»Así comienza esta magistral novela, uno de los acontecimientos literarios del año. Alexander Clave es un viejo actor de teatro que recuerda
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“The distant hours” by Kate Morton “Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret. Extraido de Casa del Libro. Ver además: http://www.katemorton.com/synopsis/
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“Leaving Atocha station “ by Ben Lerner “In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.” Extraido de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/05/leaving-atocha-station-ben-lerner http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/leaving-the-atocha-station/ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11100788-leaving-the-atocha-station http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/03/04/readers-den-leaving-atocha-station-ben-lerner-week-1 Los títulos
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“Felix in the underworld” by John Mortimer “Writer Felix Morsom no longer writes bestsellers. Then he hears about Gavin, an destroyed by the Parental Rights and Obligations Department. They meet, and he is introduced to Miriam who claims that Felix is the father of her son. He then finds himself the chief suspect in a