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Author
Publisher
Booket
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Mario, un joven funcionario, es la personificación de la rutina. Cada día a la misma hora llega a casa, donde espera encontrar a su esposa, Blanca, que es su polo opuesto. Antes de que Mario la "rescatara", bebía, fumaba y tomaba pastillas sin ningún control. Mario le roba horas al trabajo y al ocio para estar con Blanca, su único interés, que se convierte en obsesión. Una novela breve pero elegante, con un final sorprendente."--
"Mario,...
Author
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1954 a Black boy is born on a plantation in rural Virginia. He inhabits a liminal inner world where sensory experiences blur together and memory is fluid. For the first four years of his life, he doesn't speak. Then he finds his voice. Slowly entering the outside world, he evolves into an artist and educator whose extraordinary literary and musical gifts emerge through unspoken neurological challenges. Anand Prahlad's distinctly American journey...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith -- and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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