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En Zebulon County la propiedad de la tierra es un dato tan esencial como el apellido. Una noche de 1979, el irascible Larry Cook, propietario de la mayor granja del condado, decide repentinamente repartir entre sus tres hijas los mil acres que durante cuatro generaciones han pertenido a la familia. La hija menor, Caroline, expresa sus dudas con respecto a decisión tan drástica, y su padre, en un arrebato temperamental, la excluye de la partición. Este hecho constituye el disparador de la tragedia que signará los destinos individuales involucrados. Larry Cook se precipita a un estado de locura senil y se convierte en un hombre pendenciero, bebedor y depravado que aterroriza a sus hijas. Al tiempo, sentimientos de venganza, odio y recelo largamente reprimidos afloran a la superficie y promueven una tragedia cuyas raíces han permanecido sofocadas por un oscuro pasado familiar y en las inquietantes relaciones de vecindad promovidas por una tierra que moldea a su imagen y semejanza a sus habitantes... Heredarás la tierra perfila una galería de personajes de hondo dramatismo y una atmósfera de exasperante tensión a cuyo compás se desarrolla una historia de pasiones extremas.

A three-generation biography of an Australian family.

Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it the author was concerned with the themes of love, poetry, politics, the life of literature, childhood, travel and the development of certain attitudes towards moral problems. He relates these personal themes to the background of public and private events in this period of his life. This book provides an intimate and deeply felt commentary on the relationship between literature and politics in England and Germany during these years. In the course of the book there are portraits of Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Lady Ottoline Morrell, W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and others.

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Cuando Edith Hope, escritora de novelas románticas, tiene que abandonar Gran Bretaña por motivos sentimentales, se dirige a Suiza, a un hotel a la orilla del Lago Leman, cerca de Ginebra. Edith va a permanecer en el Hotel du Lac el tiempo suficiente para que sus amigos de Inglaterra olviden el episodio amoroso del que fue protagonista, episodio que causó su declive social y que ella irá reviviendo y desvelando al lector, a pesar de las trampas y los obstáculos que una memoria reacia al recuerdo acostumbra a interponer. Hotel du Lac es una novela en la que se traza, a través de las actitudes y comportamientos de los personajes, un fresco del amor romántico y la condición femenina.

The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.