No me cuentes como termina la historia

Will Lomax, acaudalado financiero londinense, recibe una carta de Thomas, su amigo de la infancia. Él también ha triunfado y es ahora un multimillonario que desea sentar cabeza. Le pide a su amigo que le encuentre una mujer a su medida: "morena, alta y arrogante", con la que se casará por poderes. Beatriz Mac Whirter, una distinguida muchacha, acaba de ser abandonada por su prometido. Para evitar el escándalo accederá a casarse con un extraño. El encuentro de dos temperamentos indómitos, revolucionará la vida de ambos.

L'aventure d'une Terrienne envoyée en mission sur un monde lointain se prolonge en une réflexion sur le conflit entre progrès et tradition... "Le Dit d'Aka" se situe dans le vaste cycle de Hain. La civilisation Hainish, techniquement évoluée et bienveillante, qui a maîtrisé le voyage interstellaire, est entrée en contact avec la Terre. Forte de ses propres erreurs, elle est porteuse d'une promesse prudente de paix, de progrès et intervient le moins possible sur les mondes qu'elle essaie d'intégrer à l'Ekumen, vaste confédération de peuples humanoïdes. La Terre est alors...

Between cups of espresso and glasses of grappa, love begins in Assisi and continues through letters to and from Madrid. The woman, Spanish, is a novelist and the mother of a young boy. The man, Italian, is an ecologist. The woman's novel-within-the-novel tells us a love story that leads us to climb into the mind of both partners. An extremely satisfying reading experience.

In this poignant work of biographical fiction, the narrator Abdellah, a grown man living in Paris, recalls his childhood home of Morocco, sharing his cherished earliest memories with the reader. The product of the twin riverside cities of Rabat and Salé—places touched by modernity but still rife with poverty—the protagonist shares his knowledge of the different currents that imbue these cities with life, as well as their numerous Moroccan mysteries: witches, the hamman, the baraka, and the ziara. As he recounts his upbringing in Morocco, with all of its people, its secret influences, its ...