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1) Four by Four
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Set entirely at Wybrany College-a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities-Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the "special," scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not well in Wybrany, and that something...
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Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her. Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about...
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From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.
The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness, alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface-subterranean, furious and impotent,...
4) Scar
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Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence. Alternately attracted to and repulsed by Knut, Sonia begins a secret double life of theft and betrayal in which she will ultimately be trapped for years.
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Algunas historias difuminan o emborronan su origen. A partir de ahí la vida se contempla y se completa con pequeños y grandes detalles que batallan en el día a día. Una joven profesora reinicia su vida en una nueva casa, lejos de otra época, probablemente de otro hogar. Pero no está sola. Esa contemplación es compartida por el trasiego y la quietud, las miradas y los silencios de dos especiales acompañantes, una perra y un gato. A través...
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La bestial y desgarradora historia de una mujer sin techo. Un texto lúcido, contundente y revelador que incita a la reflexión y a la lucha por los derechos humanos más básicos.
Esta es una historia real. La de una mujer sin hogar, discapacitada y enferma que trata de solicitar la renta mínima a la que tiene derecho según los optimistas mensajes de la administración y los medios. Pero el laberinto burocrático que debe recorrer para ello, los...