Enrique de He riz Libros

Los “Relatos africanos”, publicados en 1964, recogen una serie de historias escritas por Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2007, en las que evoca los años vividos en Rodhesia del Sur, experiencia que marcó profundamente su personalidad y su obra, y que la familiarizó con el continente africano y con su gente. Los relatos, que corresponden a distintos momentos de su vida y revelan la amplia variedad de registros de su temperamento y sensibilidad, reflejan una moderna visión crítica sobre ese continente desdichado, en la cual juega un papel importante la propia visión de los colonizados. En ciertos relatos es particularmente notable el rol sinfónico coral que juegan los campesinos nativos, impotentes en la mayoría de los casos para impedir el continuo y creciente expolio, pero subrayando con sus actitudes hoscas, su amarga rebeldía oculta. Relatos incluidos: El pequeño Tembi (Little Tembi) El viejo jefe Mshlanga (The Old Chief Mshlanga) La brujería no se vende (No Witchcraft for Sale) Sale el sol en la llanura (A Sunrise on the Veld) El sol entre los pies (The Sun Between Their Feet) Historia de dos perros (The Story of Two Dogs) Carta de casa (A Letter from Home) Hambre (Hunger) Vuelo (Flight) La Madonna negra (The Black Madonna) Traidoras (Traitors) Espías a los que he conocido (Spies I have Known) Historia del hombre que nunca se casaba (The Story of a Non-Marrying Man)

Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+. Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns… Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn't know whom he can trust. Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle–one that might put Eragon in even graver danger. Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .

Cerca del albor de los sueños, en la vasta superficie de Alagesia, una tierra surcada por las huellas de un pasado legendario, vive Eragon. Una mañana, el joven descubre en el bosque una extraña piedra con forma de huevo, en cuyo interior late una dragona que lleva más de un siglo esperando encontrar al Jinete que pueda domesticarla. Eragon es el primero en muchos años, y su nombre está llamado a devolver la paz a una tierra que en breve padecerá el ataque de Galbatorix, un rey despótico y perverso que lidera una horda de criaturas repulsivas.

Die spanische Anthropologin Isabel wurde für tot erklärt. Während sie auf Forschungsreise im Dschungel Guatemalas noch zögert, den Irrtum aufzuklären, schreibt sich zu Hause Tochter Serena ihre Trauer von der Seele. Dabei räumt sie mit einer undurchsichtigen Familiengeschichte auf, der sie schon immer misstraut hat. Von der quietschlebendigen Isabel erfährt man allerdings eine ganz andere Version ? Ausgezeichnet mit dem wichtigsten Buchhändlerpreis 'Premio Llibreter'.

What does it really mean to be dead? This is the question that vexes Isobel because as far as the outside world is concerned she is dead. The book springs from a case of mistaken identity. Isobel, mother of three adult children and an anthropologist has officially been pronounced dead following a boat accident in a remote part of the Guatemalan jungle. But Isobel is very much alive and is hiding in a remote shack in the jungle. She isn't ready to tell the world she's still alive and she's not sure whether she ever will. The news of her own death is especially ironic because as an anthropologist, she studies death rituals. Serena, Isobel's daughter, studies weather. Her father has some form of Alzheimer's and with her mother now supposedly dead, she is trying to write the family history before it is lost. Above all, she is obsessed with the story of Simon, her father's father who was in a shipwreck and survived three days at sea before being rescued. The story of his life has become a family legend together with the tales her father told about The Battle of Formigues and the story of Li Po. Ever since she was a child, Serena has been tantalised by these stories, always asking questions, turning the 'facts' over in her mind, always trying to piece the 'truth' together. Yet the irony is that she isn't investigating the one story she really should