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I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.' Thus begins the most autobiographical novel by Theodor Kallifatides and one of the most appreciated by its hundreds of thousands of readers. A week before Kallifatides fled the town, a group of fascists with guns in their hands had forced all the people to gather in the cemetery. There they stood, ...

Elijah caminaba de un lado a otro por la oficina de Owen Clarke, su abogado. Se sentía como un animal atrapado en los faros, esperando el inevitable golpe que lo aplastaría. Un equipo completo de abogados, ¿y esto fue lo mejor que pudieron encontrar? Si no estuviera Owen sentado en el escritorio frente a él, le diría al hombre, el principal abogado de su caso, que se fuera al infierno. Pero Owen había sido un buen amigo durante mucho tiempo, desde antes de que cualquiera de ellos hubiera encontrado su éxito. Si él dijo que la única opción era hacer algunos cambios, no dudaba ni un...

El cráneo siempre estuvo allí encima del despacho de su padre y él se preguntaba de quién era. Hay cosas que nunca se deben preguntar porque la respuesta puede ser la tú jamás te esperarías

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with his loving wife and son. Yet the mystery surrounding the death of his mother continues to plague his soul. Just when Daniel believes he is close to solving this enigma, a conspiracy more sinister...

Alexia Tarabotti enfrenta uma série de atribulações sociais, quiproquós e saias justas (embora compridíssimas) em plena sociedade vitoriana. Em primeiro lugar, ela não tem alma. Em segundo, é solteirona e filha de italiano. Em terceiro, acaba sendo atacada sem a menor educação por um vampiro, o que foge a todas as regras de etiqueta. E agora? Pelo visto, tudo vai de mal a pior, pois a srta. Tarabotti mata sem querer o vampiro ― ocasião em que a Rainha Vitória envia o assustador Lorde Maccon (temperamental, bagunceiro, lindo de morrer e lobisomem) para investigar o ocorrido. Com...