Showing results for "Vera" in World Literature

Corre el año 1920 y Joaquín Buitrago, que por azares de su atormentada vida acaba dedicándose a fotografiar a los internos del manicomio mexicano La Castañeda, se topa de pronto, entre las mujeres a las que retrata, con Matilda Burgos. Obsesionado por la identidad de esta enferma, pues cree haberla conocido años atrás en el célebre burdel La Modernidad, trata de recabar información sobre ella.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child. Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan's dreams become troubling and claustrophobic.

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories - fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism. In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim these stories and remake them into something new. Something different.

One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment. Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream. He has left her no other sign. Young, alone and with many unanswered questions, Jia Jia sets out on a journey. Starting at her neighbourhood bar, fuelled by anger, bewilderment, curiosity and love, she travels from nocturnal Beijing to the high plains of Tibet, deep into her past in order to arrive at her future.

Quella di venerdì 14 dicembre 1962 era una notte buia e tempestosa. Paolo Villaggio e Fabrizio De André, ancora sconosciuti, stavano perdendo tempo in compagnia di altri fannulloni. Complici un topo e la fame, l'atmosfera di torpore che avvolgeva la combriccola si infiammò parecchio. Fu quando la pace tornò a regnare che, come per magia, nacque "Carlo Martello ritorna dalla battaglia di Poitiers". De André compose la musica, lui e Villaggio scrissero insieme le parole.

Le comte Roger d'Athol, après la mort de Véra, avec laquelle il a connu "une fusion idéale", demeure si fortement attaché à elle qu'il refuse sa disparition. Par la seule force de son amour, il nie la mort de sa "dame de volupté" et fait comme s'il vivait toujours avec elle. Mais la revenante disparaît à l'instant où il cesse de croire à sa présence et toute l'atmosphère fantastique s'évanouit sur le champ.

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.

Luego del derrumbe de su vida en pareja y la fractura de sus expectativas y proyectos, ella necesita desesperadamente un lugar, algo o alguien a quien aferrarse para no quedar como una planta rodadora a merced del viento. Con una prosa sencilla, profunda y cargada de referencias a la cultura popular, el autor argentino Marcelo Vera continúa profundizando en la narrativa de la pérdida. Tras la publicación de su primera novela, Solo, y del poemario El glitter de los solitarios, experimenta con la soledad de una separación, el fracaso de la maternidad y la fragilidad de la ilusión.

It’s not been easy. She’s fought against me every step of the way, she’s fought against loving me, letting me love her, fought against a relationship, fought against our future, and then, when she finally concedes, when she finally gives in and sees the future I see for us, this happens. This is a story of bravery and overcoming immense obstacles. It's about choosing to trust again when your every instinct tells you not to.