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Günter Grass warnt in der »Süddeutschen Zeitung« vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. In seinem Gedicht mit dem Titel »Was gesagt werden muss« fordert der Literaturnobelpreisträger deshalb, Israel dürfe keine deutschen U-Boote mehr bekommen.
Érase una vez una joven alegre, con ganas de vida y de amor. Trabajaba en una joyería de una ciudad de provincias, y no pudo resistirse a los encantos de un apuesto policía que la encandiló con sus locuras. Los dos acabaron casándose y viviendo en un pequeño apartamento de Valladolid que Daniel, el hijo menor de la pareja, recuerda ahora con nostalgia. Vuelven a su mente los instantes mágicos en compañía de la madre, su voz y sus pasos ligeros alrededor de las camas de los dos niños de noche, protegiéndolos de los males que la vida acarrea consigo.
Todo cambia el día en que uno de los hijos muere. Desde entonces, una locura callada se infiltra en la mente de Ana. El marido, un hombre agresivo y poco dado a expresar sus sentimientos, sigue viviendo de su trabajo y desahogando su amargura con otra mujer. Daniel, testigo atento de tanto dolor callado, crece hasta convertirse en un adulto más acostumbrado al recuerdo que a la acción.
En ese mundo donde los sentimientos se guardan en sobres cerrados, de repente surge la posibilidad de una vía de escape: un viaje de la familia a Madrid, que Ana piensa aprovechar para rebelarse contra el destino que le ha tocado en suerte. El testimonio de este gesto está en una carta destinada al hijo, unas palabras que sería mejor no leer y que finalmente quedarán en la mente de Daniel como un símbolo del pacto que nos une a la vida: nadie vive como debe ni como quiere, sino como puede…El resto está a cargo de nuestra imaginación.
There are those who walk among us, no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution.vengeance.or to warn us. And among the living, few can even intuit their presence.
Katie O'Hara is one who can.
As she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie it compelled to discover the truth. Could David Beckett really be responsible for his fiancee's murder?
And worse. Is David, the man she is compelled to turn to for help, responsible for the body count rising in the Island of bones? A place where, as in the past, the dead are posed in macabre tableaux from the history.
Katie knows that the danger is increasing by the moment – especially as she finds herself irresistibly drawn to David. His fiancee's murder wasn't the last.and Katie's could be next.
For as long as it has stood overlooking New England's jagged coastline, Lexington House has been the witness to madness – and murder. But in recent years the inexplicable malice that once tormented so many has lain as silent as its victims. Until now. A member of the nation's foremost paranormal forensic team, Jenna Duffy has made a career out of investigating the inexplicable. Yet nothing could prepare her for the string of slayings once again plaguing Lexington House – or for the chief suspect, a boy barely old enough to drive, much less kill. With the young man's life on the line, Jenna must team up with attorney Samuel Hill to pinpoint who – or what – is taking the lives of those who get too close to the past. But everything they learn brings them closer to the forces of evil stalking this tortured ground.
It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.
Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler.
Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter's voice.
Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor.
Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.
In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer’s proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker paints a portrait of Hitler and Braun’s life together with unnerving quotidian detail—Braun chose the movies screened at their mountaintop retreat (propaganda, of course); he dreamed of retiring with her to Linz one day after relinquishing his leadership to a younger man—while weaving their personal relationship throughout the fabric of one of history’s most devastating regimes. Though Braun gradually gained an unrivaled power within Hitler’s inner circle, her identity was kept a secret during the Third Reich, until the final days of the war. Faithful to the end, Braun committed suicide with Hitler in 1945, two days after their marriage.
Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker has meticulously built a surprising portrait of Hitler’s bourgeois existence outside of the public eye. Though Eva Braun had no role in Hitler’s policies, she was never as banal as she was previously painted; she was privy to his thoughts, ruled life within his entourage, and held his trust. As horrifying as it is astonishing, will undoubtedly be referenced in all future accounts of this period.
On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else?
Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina.
Dans la Toulouse médiévale pleine de beauté et de misère, d'hérésie et de piété, le Grand Inquisiteur Jacques Novelli brûle d'une foi impétueuse que ni l'indulgence de son oncle moribond, le cardinal Arnaud Novelli, ni la bonhomie de son frère de lait, l'évêque Gui de l'Isle, ni la tendresse de leur nourrice Grazide, ni la rude amitié de frère Bernard Lallemand ne parviennent à humaniser.
Il faudra l'irruption sanglante de Jean le Hongre qui, à la tête des Pastoureaux, ravage la Juiverie de Toulouse, il faudra l'amour de Stéphanie, la sagesse du juif Salomon d'Ondes et les pitreries de Vitalis le Troué, pour qu'enfin l'intransigeance de Jacques Novelli se réchauffe au bonheur et au malheur des hommes.
Green remains a dim figure for many Americans. He stopped writing in 1952, at age 47, with just nine novels and a memoir behind him. In the last years of his life-he died in 1973-he became a kind of British Thomas Pynchon, agreeing to be photographed only from behind. But those who knew him often revered him. W. H. Auden called him the finest living English novelist. His real name was Henry Vincent Yorke. The son of a wealthy Birmingham industrialist, he was educated at Eton and Oxford but never completed his degree. He became managing director of the family factory, which made beer-bottling machines. But first he spent a year on the factory floor with the ordinary workers, and his fiction is forever marked by an understanding of the English at all levels of society, something rare in class-bound British literature. Loving is a classic upstairs-downstairs story, with the emphasis on downstairs. You see the life of a great Irish country house during World War II through the eyes of its mostly British servants, who make a world of their own during a period when their masters are away. Green's generosity towards even the most scheming and rascally of them offers a lesson you never forget.
One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip and love.
"Loving stands, together with Living, as the masterpiece of this disciplined, poetic and grimly realistic, witty and melancholy, amorous and austere voluptuary-comic, richly entertaining-haunting and poetic-writer." – TLS
"Green's works live with ever-brightening intensity-it's like dancing with Nijinsky or Astaire, who lead you effortlessly on." – The Wall Street Journal
"Green's novels- have become, with time, photographs of a vanished England -Green's human qualities – his love of work and laughter; his absolute empathy; his sense of splendour amid loss – make him a precious witness to any age." – John Updike
"Green's books are solid and glittering as gems." – Anthony Burgess
From Publishers Weekly
In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small communities and personal histories that are anything but heroic. "The Brothers Shu," by Su Tong (Raise the Red Lantern), is an urban tale of young lust and sibling rivalry in a sordid neighborhood around the ironically named Fragrant Cedar Street. That story's earthiness is matched by Wang Xiangfu's folksy "Fritter Hollow Chronicles," about peasants' vendettas and local politics, and by "The Cure," by Mo Yan (Red Sorghum; The Garlic Ballads), which details the fringe benefits of an execution. Personal alienation and disaffection are as likely to appear in stories with rural settings (Li Rui's "Sham Marriage") as they are to poison the lives of urban characters (Chen Cun's "Footsteps on the Roof"). Comedy takes an elegant and elaborate form in "A String of Choices," Wang Meng's tale of a toothache cure, and it assumes the burlesque of small-town propaganda fodder in Li Xiao's "Grass on the Rooftop." Editor Goldblatt has chosen not to expand the contributors' biographies or elaborate on the collection's post-Tiananmen context. He lets the stories speak for themselves, which, fortunately, they do, quietly and effectively.
From Library Journal
The 20 authors represented here range from Wang Meng, the former minister of culture, to Su Tong, whose Raise the Red Lantern has been immortalized on screen.
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Chinese literature has changed drastically in the past thirty years. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) arts and literature of all sorts were virtually nonexistent since they were frowned upon by official powers so that attempts to produce any were apt to cause one’s public humiliation and possibly even death by the Red Guards and other unofficial arms of the government. After 1976, in the wake of Mao’s death, literature slowly regained its importance in China, and by the mid-1980s dark, angry, satirical writings had become quite prominent on the mainland.
In the wake of Tiananmen Square, dark literature faded somewhat, but never vanished. Now Howard Goldblatt, a prominent translator of Chinese fiction and editor of the critical magazine Modern Chinese Literature, has compiled a representative collection of contemporary Chinese fiction entitled Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused. Even with my limited knowledge of modern China I feel certain the title of the book is fairly accurate.
Mo Yan is one of my favorite contemporary writers. His dark, no-holds-barred satires Red Sorghum and The Garlic Ballads detailed what he sees as the failings of both Chinese peasants (of which he was born as one) and the Chinese leaders. His short story "The Cure" is in the same vein, detailing how a local government representative-probably self-appointed during the Cultural Revolution, although that is never made quite clear in the story-leads a lynching of the village’s two most prominent leaders and their wives. But, as in most Mo Yan stories, the bitterness directed at the lyncher is double-edged with the bitter look at a local peasant who sees the deaths of the two village leaders as a desperate chance to possibly rescue his mother from impending blindness. The story is coldly realistic and totally chilling in the rational way it treats the series of events.
Su Tong is the author of the novella "Raise The Red Lantern", the basis of the wonderful movie. His "The Brothers Shu" is a bitter look at some traditional character weaknesses of Chinese people, and particularly how they affect family life. The Shu family is incredibly dysfunctional. The father nightly climbs up the side of his two-family house to have sex with the woman upstairs until her husband bolts her windows shut. So the woman sneaks downstairs to have sex in the younger son’s bedroom while the son is tied to his bed, gagged and blindfolded. Meanwhile the elder son abuses the girl upstairs until she falls in love with him. When she becomes pregnant, they are both so shamed they form a suicide pact, tie themselves together and jump into a river, where the boy is rescued in time but the girl dies. The younger son so hates his older brother-somewhat deservedly considering the abuse heaped on him by the brother-that he pours gasoline through his bedroom and sets it ablaze.
And so on, complete with beatings and torments worthy of the most dysfunctional American families. While not a particularly likeable cast of characters, the story is strong and thoughtful.
Perhaps the most moving part about "First Person", by Shi Tiesheng is in the brief author description in the back of the book. Shi is described as “crippled during the Cultural Revolution”. So many lives were needlessly destroyed during that tumultuous decade, it is easy to feel that the arrest and subsequent conviction of the notorious Gang of Four was not nearly sufficient punishment for them.
"First Person" tells the story of a man with a heart condition-Shi frequently writes about the lives of handicapped people, according to his description-who is visiting his new 21st floor apartment for the first time. While climbing the stairs very slowly, taking frequent rests, he notices a cemetery separated from the apartment building by a huge wall. On one side of the wall is sitting a woman, while on the other side stands a man. As the man climbs the stairs he fantasizes about why the couple are there, and why they are separated by the wall. Perhaps the man is having an affair, and the wife is spying on him as he rendezvous with his lover?
But then the man notices a baby lying on a gravesite, being watched from a distance by the man, and he realizes that the couple is abandoning the child. An interesting story about the fanciful delusions a person can have, but with no real depth beyond that.
Two stories involve fear of dentists in completely different ways. Wang Meng’s "A String of Choices" is a very funny story that combines a bitter look at both Eastern and Western medicine with perhaps the most extreme case of fear of dentists imaginable. Chen Ran’s "Sunshine Between the Lips" tells of a young girl whose adult male friend exposes himself to her. If that were not traumatic enough, after he is arrested for exposing himself to a complete stranger, he sets his apartment on fire and dies a brutal death. This event, combined with a near-fatal bout of meningitis, creates in the girl a deep fear of phallic objects such as needles and penises. So imagine her trauma when she develops impacted wisdom teeth at the same time as she gets married. While this description might sound a bit ludicrous, this story is very serious and very well-executed.
A strong satire on how history can be rewritten to suit the writers’ needs is Li Xiao’s "Grass on the Rooftop". When a peasant’s hut goes on fire, he is rescued by a local student. The rescue is written up for an elementary school newspaper by a local child, but the story is picked up by other papers, changing radically with each reprinting until the rescuing student becomes a great hero of the Maoist revolution because of his supposed attempt to rescue a nonexistent portrait of Mao on the wall of the hut. While this story is uniquely Chinese in many ways, it resonates in all societies in which pride and agenda is often more important than the truth.
Anybody interested in a look at contemporary Chinese society should enjoy this collection immensely.
Un médiocre et plutôt antipathique paléontologue coule des jours à peu près tranquilles même si bien peu gratifiants dans l'institut qui l'emploie. Vie sans histoires et sans excès. Mais, à la faveur d'une promotion inespérée on s'aperçoit qu'il a égaré le diplôme de son baccalauréat. Catastrophe! Le voici rapidement mis au ban d'une société toute entière dédiée à l'archivisme
, à l'archivisme comme moteur, justification et fin de toute action. Un
monde fou avec sa bureaucratie, ses profiteurs et ses parias, un
monde dont un dérèglement mystérieux a changé les bases et tout bouleversé, jusqu'à la sexualité.
Tic-tac… Vous entendez?… Ce murmure… Chaque soir, au village, les habitués se retrouvent au bistrot pour écouter les histoires incroyables d'oncle Guillaume. Des Nike entraînent celui qui les porte vers des plans pas nets. Kennedy coule des jours anonymes après avoir mis en scène son assassinat. Le Remplaceur change les mots français en leurs équivalents anglais jusqu'à faire oublier la langue maternelle à ses victimes… Oncle Guillaume donne le frisson et fonde une nouvelle mythologie. Tic-tac…
Un jour, à force de se raconter des histoires, la France déclare la guerre à l'Amérique. Des troupes françaises débarquent par surprise en Floride et progressent rapidement jusqu'à Atlanta. Tic-tac… Tout ce bruit… Les succès et les revers de la viande à canon.
La guerre. Ca se passe en France. Une ville moyenne. Un immeuble tout confort. Et deux locataires, les organisations non gouvernementales La Foulée verte et Enfance et vaccin, qui ne se supportent pas. La Foulée verte travaille évidemment à sauver l'humanité des catastrophes écologiques qui la menacent et à la protéger des poisons qu'on lui distille. Quant à Enfance et vaccin, inutile d'insister. Beaucoup de bons sentiments de part et d'autre. Beaucoup de mots, beaucoup de formules et d'idées toutes faites. Une certitude énorme d'être indispensable et la bonne conscience monstrueuse qui va avec. Le sel de la terre! Et c'est bien sûr au niveau le plus mesquin que naissent les premières difficultés entre les deux organisations.
Julien est bègue depuis l'âge de dix ans, depuis que son père l'a surpris en train de brûler les testicules d'un chat errant. Bègue mais pas manchot quand il s'agit de tenir une plume. À la recherche d'un stage et bien désireux de fuir l'exemple "mini-bourgeois" de ses parents, Julien dégotte une place à la Foulée Verte, ONG quasi mystique défendant les pingouins du pôle et la couche d'ozone. Sous la houlette d'Ulis, le chef charismatique au glorieux passé et de la belle Celsa, Julien s'épanouit et s'enflamme pour la cause, prêt à tout pour faire triompher ses idéaux et ceux de ses supérieurs. À tout dites-vous? À tout, oui. Car, quand une ONG baptisée "Enfance et vaccin" s'installe dans le même immeuble, bousille affiches et vélos, lance des insultes et pactise avec les pires ennemis de la Foulée Verte, c'est la guerre que l'on déclare. Et Julien, en plus de son rôle de chroniqueur de guerre, est bien décidé à en découdre.
Iegor Gran a un talent d'écriture certain, beaucoup d'humour et une dent contre ses personnages. Pas de héros dans cette histoire naviguant sur l'océan de l'absurde mais une tripotée d'individus plus ou moins recommandables qui s'arrachent le monopole de la bonne conscience. Et qui justifient par un soi-disant code d'honneur et un pataquès philosophico-social un peu plus de richesse, un peu plus de pouvoir. Sur ce thème, Iegor Gran offre un très bon roman et donne un grand coup de pied à notre société. Comme quoi le mariage des deux n'est pas impossible.
On le sait, chaque automne depuis cent ans, le Goncourt est attribué au livre le plus insignifiant de la rentrée.
Si l'utilité de ce prix repoussoir n'est plus à prouver - il montre à nos jeunes écrivains les voies littéraires sans avenir -, il ne faut pas oublier trop vite les goncourables, ces malheureux qui passent deux mois dans une grande détresse morale à attendre le verdict. Ils sont chair et tripes, ces gens-là, et ils ont mal à l'amour-propre. Peu de supplices sont comparables a ceux d'un pauvre bougre en sursis du Goncourt !
¿Serías capaz de cuestionar tus más firmes creencias para descubrir la verdad sobre la persona que amas?
Lucas Frías es un joven y prometedor científico. Cuando su novia Elena muere en un misterioso accidente, Lucas emprende una investigación para descubrir la naturaleza del suceso a partir de su legado: una valiosa figurilla precolombina, un pasado común con un compañero de excavación y los números de la combinación de una caja fuerte que esconden una fecha clave. Éste será el inicio de un viaje revelador que le llevará de las calles de París al desierto de Atacama, en Chile, y le sumergirá en un inquietante mundo de videntes, mentalistas, peligrosos embaucadores y físicos cuánticos que se mueven al filo de lo racional. Por el camino descubrirá nuevos interrogantes que dinamitarán su escepticismo científico y le harán asomarse al territorio de lo sobrenatural.
El corazón de la materia es, además de una historia de amor, una reflexión sobre los límites de la ciencia y una audaz indagación sobre la realidad de los fenómenos paranormales.
Ignacio García-Valiño cuestiona la fe, la razón científica, los creyentes y los escépticos, para buscar la verdad de lo invisible, pero sobre todo construye una intriga hipnótica y cautivadora, cargada de suspense, que sin duda emocionará a los lectores.
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