The Weight Of The Stars
- 348pages
- 13 heures de lecture
From the Spanish Civil War to the present day--the story of an exceptional life.
Agustin Comotto Livres
Cet auteur argentin aime écrire et illustrer ses propres livres, dans lesquels il expérimente souvent avec divers matériaux tels que la craie, l'acrylique, la cire ou le fusain. Il décrit sa passion précoce pour l'illustration en disant : « Parfois, je pense qu'au lieu d'apprendre à écrire, enfant, j'ai appris à dessiner les lettres. Je ne sais jamais si les idées me viennent sous forme de dessin ou de mot. À ce stade, ça m'est égal. » Son approche distinctive mêle éléments visuels et textuels, estompant les frontières entre l'écriture et le dessin.
The Hairdresser’s Son
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Multi-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker's phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties. Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed in Tenerife in 1977. Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he is not passionate about cutting and shaving. 'Closed' appears on his shop's front door more often than 'open', because every customer is a person, and people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next book, and becomes captivated by the story of Simon's father. As Simon probes the mystery of what happened to his father, a deeply humane and beautifully observed portrait of loneliness emerges in another captivating novel from one of Europe's greatest storytellers.
En este maravilloso libro podrás leer los cuentos de El cachorro humano ; El rey de los monos ; El maestro de los lobos ; La Flor Roja ; El tesoro del rey ; El destino de Mowgli.