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It is early morning and the sun is rising. There are problems at home which are easier to deal with if eight-year-old Noah doesn't think about them. So he picks up his trainers and runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest. Before long he come across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop. It is a toyshop - full of magic and wonder and broken promises. Noah is on a journey. A journey that will change his life. And it could change yours too.

L’autor John Boyne ja ha venut més de 100.000 exemplars de la seva primera novel•la des que es va publicar el llibre ara farà dos anys.

Tras el fabuloso éxito de su novela anterior, El niño con el pijama de rayas, John Boyne vuelve a mostrar su particular don narrativo con otra novela diferente, en la que el motín más famoso de la historia es el vehiculo idoneo para sumergir al lector en un complejo microcosmos donde el juego de la ambicion, el poder, las jerarquias, la lealtad y el valor reflejan con inusitada precision toda la miseria y la grandeza de la condicion humana.Instalado en los ultimos compases de su vida, el capitan Turnstile rememora los extraordinarios acontecimientos que dieron inicio a su larga y fructifera carrera de marino. A sus catorce años, de padres desconocidos, John Jacob Turnstile es un chico alegre y vivaz que se gana el sustento de forma no muy honrosa por las calles y mercados de Portsmouth. Justo cuando esta a punto de dar con sus huesos en la carcel, surge una ultima tabla de salvacion: embarcar como ayuda de camara del capitan en un navio destinado a una importantisima y exotica mision. El capitan es William Bligh, la nave es la fragata HMS Eounty y el destino, Tahiti. Asi pues, a lo largo de este apasionante relato, el grumete Turnstile no solo nos ofrece una version muy distinta del capitan Bligh y del insubordinado Fletcher Christian, sino tambien nos dibuja con encomiable realismo un variopinto retablo de personajes que entretejen un denso entramado de relaciones personales.

John Boyne recreates the real-life story and the amazing escape attempt of the notorious killer.

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.Drawing on a host of enthralling characters a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement.This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes Rest Day' which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.

NOVELA DE FICCION: HISTÓRICA (EN ALEMÁN)

Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with.

Murder is in his blood ...It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will. For Owen has run up huge gambling debts and casino boss Nicholas Delfy has given him a choice: find GBP50,000 by Christmas - or find yourself six feet under. So when Owen discovers that he has been cut out of the will in favour of his beautiful cousin Stella, it is time to prove just how cunning he can be ...And Owen is nothing if not inventive - even a royal crisis can provide the means for profit. And for murder...

Récit de la quête d'identité, en Irlande depuis les années 1940, de Cyril Avery. Fils d'une fille-mère de la campagne, il est plac&ea

El libro que conmovió a millones de lectores.Estimado lector, estimada lectora:Aunque el uso habitual de un texto como éste es describir las características de la obra, por una vez nos tomaremos la libertad de hacer una excepcion a la norma establecida. No solo porque el libro que tienes en tus manos es muy dificil de definir, sino porque estamos convencidos de que explicar su contenido estropearia la experiencia de la lectura. Creemos que es importante empezar esta novela sin saber de que trata.No obstante, si decides embarcarte en la aventura, debes saber que acompañaras a Bruno, un niño de nueve años, cuando se muda con su familia a una casa junto a una cerca. Cercas como esa existen en muchos sitios del mundo, solo deseamos que no te encuentres nunca con una. Por ultimo, cabe aclarar que este libro no es solo para adultos; tambien lo pueden leer, y seria recomendable que lo hicieran, niños a partir de los trece años de edad.El editorReseñas:Una historia que tiene mucho de fabula... una pequeña maravilla de libro.The GuardianUn libro que persiste en la memoria del lector. Sutil, de una exquisita sencillez y absolutamente conmovedor.The Irish TimesUn libro tan sencillo, tan aparentemente accesible, que es casi perfecto.The Irish IndependentProfundamente conmovedor.The Wall Street JournalUn libro que no se olvida.The AustralianExtraordinario.The Irish Examiner

Sam Waver has always idolised his big brother, Jason. Unlike Sam, Jason, seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at football, and girls are falling over themselves to date him.But then one evening Jason calls his family together to tell them that he's been struggling with a secret for a long time. A secret which quickly threatens to tear them all apart. His parents don't want to know and Sam simply doesn't understand. Because what do you do when your brother says he's not your brother at all? That he thinks he's actually . . . your sister?

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.'When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving'An incredible feat of storytelling. All the Broken Places is a stark confrontation of evil, an examination of guilt and deflection, and an old-fashioned page-turner. John treads the finest of narrative lines with skill and grace and proves himself yet again to be among the world's greatest storytellers. ' Donal RyanNinety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.

The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life amongst the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold.From the award-winning author of The Heart's invisible Furies comes The Shadow of My Shadow, an epic tale of humanity.

Alors qu'il est dans un hôtel à Berlin, Maurice Swift rencontre, par hasard, le célèbre romancier Erich Ackerman qui, se sentant seul, lui raconte une histoire. Peu de temps après, Maurice, qui se rê

Cyril Avery n’est pas un vrai Avery et il ne le sera jamais – ou du moins, c’est ce que lui répètent ses parents adoptifs. Mais s’il n’est pas un vrai Avery, qui est-il ?

À l'aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Pierrot vit à Paris avec ses parents, ignorant tout des nazis. Devenu orphelin, il est envoyé chez sa tante, en Allemagne, dans une maison au sommet d'une mont