Un amor de fantasia

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, ...

A scientist and a private eye investigate a strange chain of robberies taking place in museums throughout the world. Among the items are Galileos finger and Einsteins brain. Could the secret society behind the robberies have known that Newtons mathematical calculations set the year 2060 as the end of the world? Is there a connection between ancient rites and modern scientific breakthroughs? The plot reviews scientific milestones and takes the reader all over the world in search for the key to the thefts hiding the biggest secret of humanity.

Edición con abundantes notas filológicas, históricas y culturales, y con densa presentación de los problemas del texto y de la época.

“La Tragedia del Circo”, narra la historia de Perfecta Jamia, hermosa joven, hija del curtidor pieles de Marrakech, la cual, debido a la deuda que había adquirido su padre con el prestamista de la ciudad, se vio forzado el anciano padre a dar como forma de pago a su hija, para que prestara sus servicios al circo, del cual el prestamista era dueño. La joven es adiestrada en las técnicas del trapecio y sin saberlo ella y los demás integrantes del circo, se alistan a embarcarse hacia el país de las esmeraldas, lugar donde hará el circo su presentación, para complacer a un alcalde...