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Broken Umbrellas is an unusual literary work that explores human beings’ most primitive emotions and feelings through a series of different, interconnected stories. These are stories that explore madness and dementia as alternative avenues for surviving a reality that overwhelms us. The author reflects upon the value of death and freedom, and takes us through the ins and outs of repressed violence—always unjustified—but so often desired. Broken Umbrellas intends to be much more than just a collection of stories. Through its words, it seeks to offer introspective reading, rouse...

It's been twenty years since the Hospital was closed down. Francis was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum, after his behavior ended in a terrifying outburst. Now he leads a solitary life, medicated all the time. But a reunion on the grounds of the institution stirs something in Francis's mind: memories he thought he had laid to rest about the events that led to Hospital's demise.

Cuarto de la serie. La vida de Katerina Whitcomb-Salgar estaba perfectamente planificada, y el arrogante y atractivo millonario Blake McCord no entraba en sus planes. Hasta que un beso a la luz de la luna lo cambió todo.Enamorarse de la que había sido prometida de su hermano no era buena idea. Además, Blake no podía dejar que nada le distrajera de la búsqueda del diamante Santa Magdalena, fundamental para la supervivencia del negocio de joyería de su familia. Pero si había alguien que pudiera hacerle olvidar los negocios por el placer, ésa era Katie. Un viaje al Mediterráneo se...

Dan regresa a Manila recordando su amor por Lin Lin, una chica de bar, lo mismo para Raúl, el informante de la policía, y las sombras de Mabini. El rostro de Lin Lin consta de una masa de cicatrices y su vergüenza la mantiene alejada de su viejo amante. Él todavía no puede amarla. ¿O sí? Raúl quiere alertar a la policía, pero las sombras de Mabini están en camino para cobrar su venganza. Dan no buscaba una mujer para pasar la noche la primera vez que conoció a Lin Lin en una acera abarrotada en el famoso distrito de bares de Mabini. Se enamora de Lin Lin al momento en el que la...

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, ...