Resultados para "Marina, Marina" en Política

Madrid, 1973. El Hotel Plaza, epicentro nacional del poder y del lujo, está siendo testigo de unos crímenes que pueden hacer tambalear al Régimen. El subinspector Eugenio Martín, con la ayuda del sindicalista Paco Ayuso, tratarán de arrojar luz sobre los asesinatos y desapariciones de unas camareras que tienen en común su origen humilde. Una de ellas, Rosa, de pasado y futuro inciertos, les ayudará a conocer Tío Pío, el poblado de Vallecas en el que desemboca el rastro de aquellos crímenes.

Amor y desamor, exilios y desencuentros, erotismo y búsqueda de la identidad marcan el relato. El mejor testimonio para ejercitar la memoria colectiva con una historia terrible y lúcida, de acertados toques psicológicos. Ezequiel Szafir ahonda en la historia reciente de Argentina y hace de la literatura el mejor testimonio de la memoria colectiva. Una novela que plantea también un debate ético: ¿deben los hijos pagar las culpas de sus padres?, ¿existen barreras insalvables para el amor cuando el límite excede las posibilidades aceptables?

It was the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal had redefined American politics. Taxes were at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had created a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business had many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom was diminishing... and many were desperate to take that freedom back.

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints...

A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati ""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review...

TWO HOURS TO VANISH. ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE. ZERO ALTERNATIVES. Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work? For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far...

A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family’s dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel. “An exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I swear I could...

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He also begins to tell us a story.

A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious beauty" (Los Angeles Review of Books). After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the...

“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Library Reads Pick An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library...