Roberto Bacci Libros

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion and an enquiring mind. 'Through a Glass, Darkly' will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move and amaze everyone who reads it.

Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents' house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph of her grandmother, Hanna, whom she remembers as old and forbidding, a silent stranger enveloped in a huge pleated black dress. Now, looking at the features Anna recognises as her own, she realises she is looking at a different woman from the one of her memory. Set against the majestic isolation of the Scandinavian lakes and mountains, this is more than a story of three Swedish women. It is a moving testament of a time forgotten and an epic romance in every sense of the word.

Se sabe, aunque la Iglesia siempre ha pasado de puntillas sobre este hecho, que San Agustin, mas tarde Padre de la Iglesia latina, tuvo en su juventud una amante que le dio un hijo al que amo con predileccion. Vita brevis (1996), la primera novela de Jostein Gaarder no dirigida al lector juvenil, es la carta manuscrita que supuestamente Floria, su amante, le escribio al hilo de la lectura de sus Confesiones, la obra fundamental del santo obispo de Hipona. En ella, con ironia y sarcasmo, critica a Agustin por haber abandonado el verdadero y autentico amor humano para entregarse a uno divino, del que poco se sabe.Vita brevis es una novela diferente, una ardiente defensa del amor sensual y una fervorosa critica a la represion religiosa de las pasiones y sentimientos humanos; una obra completamente distinta a las anteriores del autor, aunque lleve el inconfundible sello de su siempre alerta curiosidad filosofica.