Resultados para "Candido" en Antologías y relatos breves

To Old Pete's owner, it had always seemed that Pete would be the first to go. At 30 years of age, it even appeared likely. Now Old Pete's owner is confined to a hospital bed, though, and Old Pete is still going strong. But there might be some way that they could get together again for a last ride, prospecting up a mountain, just the two of them, who would have been together for a longer time than most married folks.

Este libro excepcional reúne la novela corta que le otorga su título y otros seis relatos más, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del autor. Fueron los años en los que Macondo le abrió las puertas del realismo mágico: la frase se hace más larga y caudalosa, la realidad se expresa mediante fórmulas mágicas y legendarias, los milagros se insertan en la vida cotidiana.

Dois retratos realísticos da miséria humana: assim se propõem esta duas narrativas de Raul Pompeia. Em "História cândida", não se engane o leitor com o adjetivo: abandono e sedução reunidos na história triste da Rachadinha, personagem central. Já "Amor de inverno" oferece uma reflexão sobre desejo e velhice, com enredo surpreendente.

The relentless feeding of the Being has created a secret world of monsters. Each of these bastard children have a different path to follow. In this collection of short stories, learn more about the world of spirits that surrounds a society of people who never die. This book is part monster manual and part family album.

This novel is a collections of short stories, each with a different main character, tied together by the spirits that haunt them and a drug that keeps them young. Ligare, the demon that causes sleep paralysis, is a soul lacking in personality and hungering for creativity. His presence is a burden upon the world, draining passion from his victims. Autumn, the Muse, has been a homebody, taking care of her father for the last 100 years, made possible by the drug Rejuverron. As she steps back into the world she accidentally changes the lives of those she meets.

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

Des nouvelles de Clarice Lispector lues par une des plus célèbres actrices brésiliennes contemporaines. Dans ces treize nouvelles, Clarice Lispector peint avec une précision remarquable des portraits de femmes toutes différentes les unes des autres. Une jeune fille passionnée de lecture décrit l’intimidation exercée par une camarade dont le père est libraire, une autre femme relate le parcours qui l’a conduite à devenir voleuse de roses, tandis qu’une mère échange des réflexions avec son fils autour du dîner.

De la mano de uno de los narradores que mejor ha contado el drama de la guerra del Pacífico, estos ocho relatos recrean los fragmentos más humanos y desgarradores del conflicto y del desierto de Atacama como escenario de guerra: soldados buscando el cuerpo del comandante Eleuterio Ramírez entre cadáveres carbonizados, el sangrador que intenta curar a los soldados chilenos en Antofagasta, el teniente Godoy empampado y mirando volar a los cuervos que esperan el momento de su muerte, la toma del Morro de Arica, el arribo a Lima y un ejército intoxicado con las aguas del río.