Titanomaxia

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.

Maza, un tipo duro, regenta El Oasis, un club de mala muerte en una carretera de la Mancha. Su vida transcurre monótona, entre timbas y pequeños trapicheos, hasta que aparece María, una gitana que lo hipnotiza, lo fascina y que, como una bomba de relojería, hará estallar un complejo entramado de amores escondidos, obsesiones irracionales, sexo, dinero, robos y saltos al vacío del que nadie saldrá ileso. Ibáñez nos adentra en un mundo de derrota y supervivencia por donde circulan personajes curtidos en mil batallas. Siempre entre trago y trago.

El cronista minucioso, Germ n Arciniegas (Colombia, 1900-1999), as como se detiene en los detalles de la historia cotidiana de los pueblos, tuvo tambi n la amplitud de miras Para darnos la gran panor mica de un continente y abrirnos el mejor mirador sobre su pueblo: el de un asombro intacto, el de una magia cotidiana: la magia de la escritura americana.

This is about the life of Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter and the baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, this is the begining of the real Candide's life.