El ruido de las nueces

Once upon a time, there was a mouse who lived in Europe who longed to go to America, the land of liberty, and be reunited with his friends who had fled. He decides the best way to get there would be to fly. He makes many attempts until he finally designs the perfect plane. His successful voyage inspires an entire nation, including a young boy named Charles Lindbergh. Children will love the detailed illustrations and the mouse's determination in spite of some failed attempts in this very original picture book. A brief history of aviation is included at the end of the book.

“Cuento de nochebuena”, de Rubén Darío; “El primer milagro”, José Martínez Ruiz, “Azorín”; “El regalo de navidad”, de Grazia Deledda; “La pequeña cerillera”, de Hans Christian Andersen; “El Olentzero y la Navidad”, cuento tradicional vasco; “Vanka”, de Antón Chejov; “El cuarto rey de oriente”, leyenda popular alemana; “Canción de navidad”, de Charles Dickens; “El regalo de los magos”, de O. Henry; “Te regalo mi cumpleaños”, de Seve Calleja. En esta breve antología, complementada con un prólogo sobre la literatura navideña y un...

Colección de ensayos sobre el sujeto exótico, ese que nos provoca atracción y al mismo tiempo rechazo. Representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad así resulta un estímulo para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzaldúa, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajtín, Said y Derrida, los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la ignorancia oculta en los vocabularios culturales.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.