Camelia y la filosofía

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

Un pequeño pueblo entre las montañas Una mujer que vuelve a su casa para pasar un verano y el descubrimiento de que desde ese lugar tal vez pueda combatir la tormenta Alicia Sierra es una ingeniera aeronáutica que disfruta de una vida estable en Hamburgo. Sin embargo, la empresa para la que trabaja está en medio de un ERE que afecta a gran parte de la plantilla y que la deja compuesta y sin trabajo en un país que en realidad no es el suyo. Mientras piensa qué hacer con su futuro, decide aprovechar el verano para regresar a su pueblo donde todavía viven su hermana, su sobrino y su...

In the tradition of the Mexican masters Rosario Castellanos or Juan Rulfo, Rose Mary Salum creates an aura of fantasy that goes beyond the mere narration of telling a story. It submerges the reader into a dream/like experience without disconnecting itself from a magical plot of realities that will ultimately take you to experience the universal emotions of love, death and life.

Mi madre era de Mariúpol is an exceptional book where Wodin investigates the past of her Ukrainian mother, who grew up in the harbor city of Mariupol and was forcibly relocated in 1943 to Germany as an 'Eastern worker' along with her husband. This book describes in absorbing and at times harrowing detail a topic seen by many as a footnote to history, a grim appendix to the Holocaust: the use of forced labor in the Third Reich.