Los impuros

The granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot forget and another she wants to embrace in this 1992 Planeta Prize-winning novel.

Un retrato de la sociedad flamenca desde el comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta la derrota del III Reich. Ambientada en Bélgica durante los últimos años del III Reich, esta novela narra la adolescencia de Louis Seynaeve, hijo de una familia pequeñoburguesa y ultraconservadora, orgullosa de su propia inanidad. Con el paso de los años, Louis, desencantado, abandona los mitos de la niñez y descubre la naturaleza hipócrita del mundo adulto. Obra de factura clásica y proporciones épicas, polémica, hilarante y cruda a partes iguales, La pena de Bélgica es uno de los mayores...

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house...

La cruzada de los niños es el fascinante relato en el que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho monólogos describen la aciaga suerte de dos tropas de niños en el siglo xiii que, esperanzados e ignorantes, parten de Francia y de Alemania hacia Jerusalén en una insólita cruzada para liberar el Santo Sepulcro del poder de los infieles.