Resultados para "The Magic" en Política

Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: That her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramon launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment.

Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, it's a symphony conducted from an overpass, grandiose, comic, and as diverse as the city itself - from an author who has received the California Book Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, among other literary honors.

Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . . Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while Austrian Franz finds himself roped into writing the memoirs of the charismatic Tshiamuena, the "Madonna of the Cafunfo Mines."

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Irritabilidade, raiva e um humor peculiarmente malicioso caracterizam as férias em família do narrador de Mário e o mágico em Torre di Venere, na Itália. A inquietação dos personagens aumentará pela presença do infausto Cipolla, um ilusionista cuja performance é aterrorizar e humilhar seu público, subjugando-o à sua própria revelia. Em um ataque direto à dignidade humana, a apresentação encontra sua vítima perfeita no garçom Mário, que deve se submeter às vontades do mágico sem restrições — até que uma tragédia se instaura.

In Blood Song, Anthony Ryan introduced readers to “a fascinating world of conflicting religions and the wars fought in the name of those faiths” (Library Journal). Now Ryan’s epic tale continues as Vaelin Al Sorna discovers that there is no escape from the call of destiny… “The...

La piramide è il simbolo del potere, delle gerarchie. Il personaggio di questo racconto percorre un viaggio lungo una notte attorno a se stesso e scopre…aveva capito che il rapporto tra informazione e potere era lo stesso che tra corruzione e politica. Quasi si confondevano. Trovò quindi il modo di stabilire che tutte le comunicazioni passassero da lui. Da lui invece ne uscivano pochissime. L’indispensabile. Alle volte neanche quello. Stava mettendo in pericolo l’azienda. Ma doveva farlo. Giusto il tempo necessario per arrivare in cima.

Stones of Temple David takes twists and turns across various places and cultures. The novel begins in pre-war Poland and then it leads the listener through the dark ages of communism, escape to the free world, love, betrayal, espionage, and the evils of bureaucracy in the US. It also includes hallucinating time-travel.

A wrongfully imprisoned storyteller spins stories from his jail cell that just might have the power to save him—and take down a corrupt government. Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a cold, filthy jail cell in a foreign land. With only his...

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula? In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility.