Resultados para "Penelope" en Epopeyas

Ganadora en dos ocasiones del Premio Booker -en el año 2000 con El asesino ciego y en 2019 con Los testamentos-, un hecho insólito en la historia del máximo galardón literario de las letras anglosajonas, la aclamada autora de El cuento de la criada nos sorprende con una valiente reelaboración del mito de Penélope, esposa de Odiseo y símbolo por excelencia de la fidelidad conyugal a lo largo de los siglos.

For thirteen years, Leonor lived a peaceful life—until the Dust Mages returned. When tragedy strikes, she’s forced to abandon her sheep farm and confront the ruthless enemy she thought she’d escaped. Joined by an inexperienced farm boy and a priest with secrets of his own, Leonor must hunt the mages across a fractured world. Justice drives her. Revenge fuels her. But the darkness rising is older than memory—and far more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Delve deeper into the world of the Earthsinger Chronicles with these prequel novellas full of magic, adventure, destiny, and love.

On an Imperial outpost world on the fringes of tau space, the renowned Commissar Ciaphas Cain and his fractious regiment of Valhallan Guard, newly created from the remnants of two devastated units, find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Astra Militarum struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commissar Cain identify the real villain before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever?

Orphaned and alone, Jasminda lives in a land where cold whispers of invasion and war linger on the wind. Jasminda herself is an outcast in her homeland of Elsira, where her gift of Earthsong is feared. When ruthless soldiers seek refuge in her isolated cabin, they bring with them a captive - an injured spy who threatens to steal her heart.

Queen Rolfe betrayed me. My own mother. The Teeth have my wife, and I can't allow myself to think about what they're doing to her. I need to raise an army to get her back, and if I can't, I'll march in there and do it myself.

L. Penelope's stunning epic fantasy Earthsinger Chronicles continues with Cry of Metal & Bone. The Mantle dividing Elsira and Lagrimar has fallen. As the two kingdoms struggle to unify, one threat stands above them all. As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance at a better life...

"Tu veux l'intensité sans le risque. Tu veux la vie sans la mort. Tu veux le sublime sans la tempête. Tu veux l'amour sans le quotidien. Il y a cinq ans, tu as fui pour aller au-devant de toi-même, pour t'émanciper de tes carcans, et bonne nouvelle, tu as réussi. Mais maintenant, c'est à toi d'inventer une existence qui te convient. Entretenir la douleur est une autre manière de fuir. Il est temps de faire la paix avec tes fantômes et de trouver ton port."

On the ice world of Simia Orichalcae a spate of mysterious disappearances is causing unrest amongst the mine workers, and, as senior officer of the Astra Militarum, Commissar Ciaphas Cain is nominated to investigate. Unbeknownst to him, the planet is right in the path of a major ork incursion, and, as the savage greenskins attack, a malevolent evil begins to stir deep in the ice caves.

When fellow student John Foremile turns up at his flat on a rain-sodden winter’s night, former Merchant Navy Captain Rex Slingsby thinks he’s in for just another boozy night down the pub. John, however, has come laden with a package of ancient-looking manuscripts, and Rex is soon engrossed in reading an outlandish tale of a powerful, benevolent race of Dragons and of the human wizards hell-bent on destroying them. Incredulous at first, the two friends quickly find themselves embroiled in an epic quest to rescue a fertile dragon’s egg.