Fuego

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Aleksander, a Polish Jew of Sephardic origin, has to face the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 and fight against them in the 1944 City Uprising. After having lost his family in dramatic situations and after going through hard experiences as a prisoner of war, he reaches es. A plot that perfectly evokes the vicissitudes of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were persecuted by the Third Reich and in which historical and fictional characters come together to offer readers a unique and exciting experience.

Pese a las intenciones de quienes lo perpetraron, el ataque con gas sarín que se produjo en el metro de Tokio en marzo de 1995 sólo se cobró once vidas. Sin embargo, miles de personas resultaron heridas y muchas otras sufrieron sus consecuencias y secuelas. El novelista Haruki Murakami entrevista a las víctimas, a los que vivieron y sufrieron en propia piel el atentado, para establecer con precisión qué ocurrió ese día en las distintas líneas de metro afectadas. También para desentrañar la verdadera historia que se ocultaba bajo un acto terrorista que convirtió una anodina mañana ...

A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals of gardening and the wonder of Nature. "I found myself translating a story written by someone I hardly knew, about some...