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Urania Cabral, avocate new-yorkaise, revient Saint-Domingue après de nombreuses années d'absence. Sur son lit de mort, son père, ancien homme politique, va répondre aux questions qu'elle se pose et la replonger dans la dictature de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. En 1961, quatre jeunes conjurés vont tenter de mettre fin la terreur de tout un peuple, en assassinant le dictateur.

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as, and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her. Gifted liar and irresistible, maddening muse - does Ricardo ever know who she really is?

Columnas periodísticas en las que me esfuerzo por comentar algún suceso de actualidad que me exalte, irrite o preocupe, sometiéndolo a la criba de la razón y cotejándolo con mis convicciones, dudas y

Ian Gibson profundiza en las raíces de la obra cinemato gráfica de Luis Buñuel, transida de resonancias personales, cada vez más valorada internacionalmente.Luis Buñuel (Calanda, 1900-México, 1983) es el aragones mas celebre del mundo despues de Goya y esta considerado como uno de los grandes creadores del siglo XX.Con una revision minuciosa de la ingente bibliografia acumulada en torno a la figura de Buñuel en distintos idiomas, y una rigurosa investigacion durante siete años llevada a cabo en Calanda, Zaragoza, Madrid y Paris, el reconocido hispanista ha salido airoso del reto.La infancia del cineasta, la intensa relacion con la madre, su larga temporada con los jesuitas, los años universitarios en Madrid al lado de Lorca y de Dali, el traslado a Paris en 1925 #donde encuentra pronto su vocacion y participa en la apasionante aventura del surrealismo#, Un Chien andalou y el escandalo de L'Age d'or, la vuelta a España bajo la Republica, su trabajo con la productora Filmofono, el compromiso antifascista y, empezada la contienda, su actuacion semisecreta a ordenes de la embajada española en Paris... He aqui un relato magistral que se lee como una novela.Tras Garcia Lorca, Dali y Machado, Ian Gibson desentraña la vida de uno de los creadores españoles mas vanguardistas: Luis Buñuel.

Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author''s other works include "The Storyteller".

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil...

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter''s rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist''s affair.

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals. The first is his recently divorced Aunt Julia, with whom he begins an affair which he must hide from his family. The second is Pedro Camacho, an eccentric scriptwriter whose radio dramas are keeping the whole city enthralled. This hilarious and mischievous novel interweaves the story of Marito's life with Pedro Camacho's increasingly insane tales to masterfully depict both Peru and the act of growing up in the 1950s. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a perfect introduction to one of South America's most popular and lauded writers.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his grandmother, Flora Tristan. In 1844, Flora embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers and womens rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to paint his primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel.A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows Mario Vargas Llosa at the peak of his powers.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In Praise of the Stepmother is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife and collecting erotic art. But while Lucrecia is devoted to him, she has her own needs, and soon finds herself the object of young Alfonsos attention.With meticulous observation and seductive skill, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mysterious nature of happiness. Little by little, the harmony of his characters is darkened by the shadow of perversion.If you enjoyed In Praise of the Stepmother, you might also like Mario Vargas Llosas The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Perus Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place.Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas Llosas Captain Pantoja and the Special Service combines political satire with humour, morality with uproarious sexuality.