Signs Preceding the End of the World - formato ePub

Secondo la mitologia azteca, il Mictlán era il livello inferiore del mondo sotterraneo, l’aldilà abitato dai signori della morte. La leggenda lo situava a nord e per raggiungerlo bisognava percorrere...

On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis — the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company — may have committed...

The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical...

Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United...

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Yuri Herrera nous ouvre les portes d’un monde fascinant et implacable : celui de la frontière qui sépare les deux rives du Rio Grande, entre le Mexique et les États-Unis. Il s’agit d’un territoire métis...

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A las siete de la mañana del 10 de marzo de 1920 se declaró un incendio en la mina El Bordo, en el estado mexicano de Hidalgo. Unas horas más tarde se dio por terminada la evacuación y se cerró el tiro...

Los personajes de Diez planetas habitan un futuro inimaginable que, no obstante, nos invita a dudar de las herramientas con que calibramos nuestro mundo más próximo: un terrícola exiliado en un improbable...

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Una epidemia paraliza el país pero propicia, a su vez, el encuentro entre una mujer deseada, La Tres Veces Rubia, y un hombre que desea, El Alfaqueque. Las palabras de éste parecen conseguir, calmar o...

Este libro inventa una hipótesis: ¿qué sucedió durante el año y medio en que Benito Juárez, quien acabaría siendo el primer presidente indígena de México, vivió desterrado en Nueva Orleans? Es en ese...

Quizá la crudeza de la realidad vivida a partir de la degradación social y política padecida en las últimas décadas, ha impulsado en escritores jóvenes un notorio interés por tratar las calamidades que...

Polvere e sole. Silenzi. Pochi spiccioli guadagnati per la strada offrendo rime in cambio di pietà. Perché Lupo ha un talento: sa come trasformare in musica ciò che vede.Un giorno incontra un Re, entra...

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Alive or dead, blessed or cursed, Shin has to decide if she will forgive the vicious sins of her mysterious past or if her own ghosts will destroy her.Abandoned at birth, given a male's name at an automated...

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Content:Two funny and crazy stories about 'the Fish Sandwich Mafia.' Can, but shouldn't, be taken too seriously. Colorfully illustrated with images generated by an AI.Laughter for young and old with these...

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Kip is a conman, looking for a place to hide out for a while. Sisters-in-law Jo and Mo Waite are seeking a front man for their detective agency, since nobody seems excited about hiring two sixty-plus...

        Andrea and Justin thought they made a clean break, when Justin took a job promotion. The promotion was what he had been working towards for his entire career, but it required he move to another...

You are a naive young druid, a half giant of the Dru Kai Sai clan on your first venture out into the world beyond the mountains. You couldn't have known you'd end up falling into the space between universes,...

In a country in which teachers are demonized as incompetent, where everyone wants quality schools but no one wants to pay for them, what becomes of those who stand for principle, who know what to do to...

An accidental collision brings a young woman, and an elderly man together in an unlikely way. Faith has been living life by just going through the motions, while Matthew has lived a long and full life....

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Hitchhiking is easy, right? Stick out a thumb, hop in an old jalopy and see the country from behind someone else's bug-splattered window. But even hitching from Boston to Los Angeles was a lot trickier...