Manual Para Escritura de Novela

This is a story of three characters--Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator--as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of selfdiscovery, each compelled to deal with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. Filled with humor, charm, and marvelous storytelling, this novel links cartography, garbage-obsessed archeologists, pirates past and present, a mysterious book with no cover, and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian...

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

José Saramago nos revela en estas páginas su día a día en Lanzarote, adonde trasladó su residencia en 1993. Lo acompaña de preguntas y respuestas, de opiniones certeras y radiantes acerca de lo más cercano y lo más general, de comentarios sobre amigos y sobre el mundo que le ha tocado, que nos ha tocado, vivir.

Este libro ilustrado para niños y jóvenes trata de varios aspectos de la civilización antigua de Mesopotamia incluyendo los ríos el Tigris y el Éufrates, las ciudades, el monumento Zigurat, los inventos, la agricultura y la guerra, el estandarte de Ur, la escritura, el código de Hammurabi, el rey Assurbanipal, la ciudad de Babilonia, y la leyenda de Gilgamesh.