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Com Ulisses, tamb# Lia va trobar la seva illa al Mediterrani. Narraci# de 28 anys d''hist#ria social i pol#tica, del 1974 al 2002, que es desenvolupa primordialment en quatre pa#sos representatius de les tres grans religions del Llibre -Judaisme, Cristianisme, Islam-, novel·lada a trav#s del mirall d''un personatge femen#, Lia, que viu la seva infantesa, adolesc#ncia i joventut madura, reflectint i interpretant els canvis traum#tics de la societat occidental. Es dibuixa el pas de la bipolaritat antiga entre comunisme i el capitalisme liberal, cap a la postmodernitat immersa en el desengany, l''escepticisme, la globalitzaci#, el terrorisme ideol#gic... Es descriu l''evoluci# d''una bella jove d''Eti#pia pertanyenta una fam#lia benestant que, empesa per les circumst#ncies pol#tiques i familiars, arriba a Roma on ella, m#s endavant, hi estudiar# medicina. #s a partir del retorn a la terra natal on s''inicia la personal Odissea a trav#s de les amistats, els conflictes armats,l''amor, la religi# i els dubtes. Com el vell Ulisses, les lli#ons que anir# aprenent en els diferents llocs on les circumst#ncies la vagin portant, faran que valori amb una entranyable convicci# l''amor pels seus i les senzilles coses de cada dia.

THIS IS ONE OF GRAFTON''S MOST FUN-TO-READ BOOKS. . . . One of Kinsey Millhone''s] wildest adventures yet." --San Francisco Examiner When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do, she thinks, is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead man''s house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up, she quickly realizes he was not all he seemed. Before long Kinsey is trailing crooks halfway across the country, impersonating a hotel maid, tangling with a baseball bat-wielding grandmother, and running from one very dangerous character. With her money almost gone and her nerves frayed, Kinsey''s got to solve a decades-old crime and make it back home in time for Henry''s wedding . . . if she can make it back at all (...)

Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. 'Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.' And indeed the next morning the two men are called to 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews to investigate a mysterious case of murder disguised as suicide.

Ningú no s''acaba d''explicar com és que el metge Dowan Purcell ha desaparegut tan misteriosament ni per quina raó les investigacions de la policia no avancen. Purcell semblava enamorat de Crystal, la seva segona muller, una exartista de ...

Written during the final stages of her illness, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, 'At the Bay', a vivid, impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

Com Ulisses, tamb# Lia va trobar la seva illa al Mediterrani. Narraci# de 28 anys d''hist#ria social i pol#tica, del 1974 al 2002, que es desenvolupa primordialment en quatre pa#sos representatius de les tres grans religions del Llibre -Judaisme, Cristianisme, Islam-, novel·lada a trav#s del mirall d''un personatge femen#, Lia, que viu la seva infantesa, adolesc#ncia i joventut madura, reflectint i interpretant els canvis traum#tics de la societat occidental. Es dibuixa el pas de la bipolaritat antiga entre comunisme i el capitalisme liberal, cap a la postmodernitat immersa en el desengany, l''escepticisme, la globalitzaci#, el terrorisme ideol#gic... Es descriu l''evoluci# d''una bella jove d''Eti#pia pertanyenta una fam#lia benestant que, empesa per les circumst#ncies pol#tiques i familiars, arriba a Roma on ella, m#s endavant, hi estudiar# medicina. #s a partir del retorn a la terra natal on s''inicia la personal Odissea a trav#s de les amistats, els conflictes armats,l''amor, la religi# i els dubtes. Com el vell Ulisses, les lli#ons que anir# aprenent en els diferents llocs on les circumst#ncies la vagin portant, faran que valori amb una entranyable convicci# l''amor pels seus i les senzilles coses de cada dia.

THIS IS ONE OF GRAFTON''S MOST FUN-TO-READ BOOKS. . . . One of Kinsey Millhone''s] wildest adventures yet." --San Francisco Examiner When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do, she thinks, is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead man''s house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up, she quickly realizes he was not all he seemed. Before long Kinsey is trailing crooks halfway across the country, impersonating a hotel maid, tangling with a baseball bat-wielding grandmother, and running from one very dangerous character. With her money almost gone and her nerves frayed, Kinsey''s got to solve a decades-old crime and make it back home in time for Henry''s wedding . . . if she can make it back at all (...)

Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. 'Nobody would hear a shot, for instance, on a night like this.' And indeed the next morning the two men are called to 14 Bardsley Gardens Mews to investigate a mysterious case of murder disguised as suicide.

Ningú no s''acaba d''explicar com és que el metge Dowan Purcell ha desaparegut tan misteriosament ni per quina raó les investigacions de la policia no avancen. Purcell semblava enamorat de Crystal, la seva segona muller, una exartista de ...

Written during the final stages of her illness, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, 'At the Bay', a vivid, impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.