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Kertesz y Esterhazy narran, en sendos relatos, una historia única, que se eleva a la categoría de metáfora universal.

Siempre lo supe, Antonio, como muy pocas novelas, no solo nos conmoverá profundamente por las vicisitudes que rodean a varios de sus personajes, ficticios todos, sino que está llamada a ser, en cientos de países donde sus gentes viven inconformes con las condiciones indignas que tantos padecen, la chispa que inicie o impulse de manera definitiva la empresa más importante jamás acometida por revolución alguna, de índole económica, social o política. Se trata de la transformación de la errada cultura social que padecemos desde hace siglos y que ha sido la principal causa de la gran...

This sequel to Empire of the Sun begins in Shanghai toward the close of the war. Young James goes from the prison camp to England. When a sudden tragedy shatters his idyllic world, it's through the kindness of women in his life that he's led to confront the traumas of his childhood.

"A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven decades later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in...