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23) Marina
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Integrating a wealth of information about the diverse peoples, institutions, religions, and customs that flourished in the states...
33) The heretic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This literary-historical novel takes readers on a compelling journey through the Reformation and Spanish Inquisition in 16th century.
"In what may well be the last great novel of one of contemporary wold liteature's most accomplished authors, Miguel Delibes takes us into the heart of sixteenth-century Spain. At the very moment Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to a church door and launches the movement that will divide the Roman Catholic...
35) The muse
Author
Language
English
Description
Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The mystery surrounding the painting includes Olive Schloss,...
37) A moment of war
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir of the Spanish Civil War with “the plainness of Orwell but the metaphorical soaring of a poem . . . An extraordinary book” (The New York Times Book Review).
In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France—two days on foot through the snow. I don’t know why I chose December; it was just one of a number of idiocies I committed at the time.
Such was Laurie Lee’s entry into the...
In December 1937 I crossed the Pyrenees from France—two days on foot through the snow. I don’t know why I chose December; it was just one of a number of idiocies I committed at the time.
Such was Laurie Lee’s entry into the...
38) La trampa
Author
Series
Colección Destinolibro ; 101
Publisher
Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Español
Description
Continúa la historia de Matia (de la novela "Primera Memoria"), enlazada directa o indirectamente a la aventura humana de otros seres. El dolor de la vida se mezcla con la realidad cotidiana.
