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Bitácora de política exterior colombiana
Este libro constituye un balance anual que recoge las perspectivas de tomadores de decisión, diplomáticos, empresarios, representantes de gremios empresariales, periodistas, representantes de organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) y académicos, sobre las decisiones, las acciones y las estrategias que los gobiernos colombianos han tomado en materia de política exterior. Este volumen brinda un balance de la política exterior del gobierno Duque, en especial lo concerniente a las prioridades temáticas y las relaciones bilaterales y multilaterales de esta administración. Las cuestiones temáticas incluyen el manejo de la crisis regional suscitada por la masiva migración venezolana, la po...
The Maker of Swans
'Compulsive reading . . . rich, strange, beautiful' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'A strange, new and captivating look at a magical realm . . . Lavishly entertaining' Independent 'Enthralling . . . a literary feast' Stylist The world had forgotten Mr Crowe and his mysterious gifts. Until he killed the poet. He lived a secluded life in the fading grandeur of his country estate. His companions were his faithful manservant and his ward, Clara, a silent, bookish girl who has gifts of her own. Now Dr Chastern, the leader of a secret society, arrives at the estate to call Crowe to account and keep his powers in check. But it is Clara's even greater gifts that he comes to covet most. She must learn to use them quickly, if she is to save them all.
The Orange Grove
The author of The Bicycle Eater shares “a fluid and troubling fable” of brotherhood, tragedy, and the limits of art, written in “a subtle and fine poetry” (La Presse, CA). Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood. And in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin—now a student actor in wintry Montreal—is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Author Larry Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, The Orange Grove depicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.
All Souls
All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.
Killing the Water
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Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Estudios de la moda en Colombia
En este libro, que compila 19 trabajos diversos de autores nacionales, predomina la mirada desde los estudios culturales y de manera emergente desde el campo teórico y metodológico de los estudios de moda. También reconoce los diferentes caminos que han existido en Colombia para hablar de este tema: experiencias investigativas y reflexivas desde las pedagogías y la práctica del diseño, el periodismo narrativo y crítico como una forma fundamental del análisis de la moda en el país, la voz del sector productivo de la moda, así como las miradas históricas, sociológicas y culturales que beben de la larga tradición de las ciencias sociales. Es decir, se ha tratado de un campo en formación de carácter multidisciplinar y multimetodológico, en donde se mezclan la investigación, la creación, la pedagogía y la productividad económica de la moda.
The Foolish Children
The Foolish Children contains twenty-one micro-fiction stories by Ana Maria Matute in Spanish and in English translation. It was rated by the Nobel laureate Camilo Jose Cela as "the most important work written in Spanish by a woman since the Countess Emilia Pardo Bazan."
