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Una apasionante historia de amor, terror y el infatigable espíritu humano que empieza rescatando a su amor, pero termina salvando a la nación... La vida del Mayor Akhil Tapar es volteada de arriba a abajo cuando pisa una mina mientras está luchando contra los terroristas en Jammu y Kashmir. Con su pierna izquierda desaparecida, él tiene que ajustarse a su nueva realidad. Esa de que es un lisiado. Que su carrera en la armada se ha terminado. Que ahora va a estar casado con su silla de ruedas por siempre. Hasta que una mañana, en el hospital en el que se encuentra recuperando de su...

Sara’s abusive marriage has finally ended. She now must get out of the Kansas City area before Paul, her ex-husband, finds out she is pregnant with his child and tries to prevent from her leaving the city. She is sitting at her favorite spot in the city, taking one last look before she leaves this city forever. She has money from the sell of their house in the bank and a new job waiting for her in Colorado. She is ready to leave for the train station when her ex-husband shows up and points a gun at her head. He tells her he knows about the baby and that they will be remarried as soon as...

«Skármeta acredita aquí cualidades ya conocidas: amenidad narrativa, fluidez de la prosa, integración textual de la cultura literaria y sobre todo agudo sentido del humor.» Miguel García Posada, El País. Para el doctor Raymond Papst, su vida cómoda y tediosa no tiene otra emoción que jugar, de vez en cuando, un partido de tenis con su suegro, hata que a los cincuenta y dos años el destino pone en su camino a Sophie Mass, que, con quince años, se revela como una de las promesas de dicho deporte. Pero también es un torbellino erótico que entra en la existencia autocomplaciente y...

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up making charcoal sketches on freshly whitewashed temple walls and went on to be titled in the court of Thiruvananthapuram as 'Raja' for his artistic prowess. His painting of a Nair woman who worked in his wife's palace brought him wrath and recognition...