El libro perdido de los origenistas

The five novels written by Juan José Millás between 1988 and 1998 (El desorden de tu nombre; La soledad era esto, Volver a casa; Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible; and El orden alfabético) display an increasing preoccupation with a limited number of themes, principally identity and social criticism. They also demonstrate the constant reiteration of a specific group of motifs, an increasing use of metafictional devices, and the use of bizarre or mentally disturbed protagonists. Millás presents writing as the compulsive expression of obsessive thought. This book explains Millás's...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

Kids love to be asked questions almost as much as they love to ask them. And asking is important--parents know the value of having meaningful conversations with their kids. In this book you will find the funny answers that Gianni Rodari found when he asked children questions about animals.

Dos niños, extraños entre sí, se encuentran en una casa en París: Leopold espera a su madre, a la que nunca ha visto; Henrietta espera un tren. En una habitación del piso de arriba, una anciana yace moribunda y su melancólica y frustrada hija, desesperanzada, revolotea a su alrededor, sometida en todo momento al control emocional de su madre. En esta obra maestra de la sugerencia, Elizabeth Bowen se recrea al narrar los temores de los niños y las razones de su presencia en esa casa, los secretos decisivos de los adultos y su vinculación fatídica a un pasado que determina su presente. ...