El latido del tiempo

Una inmersión fascinante en una cultura en vías de desaparición. Tras seducir a lectores y críticos de todo el mundo con El abanico de seda y Dos chicas de Shanghai, Lisa See vuelve a cautivarnos con La isla de las mujeres del mar, una bella e introspectiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes hanenyeo -mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju, cuya forma de vida ha sido reconocida por la Unesco como patrimonio de la humanidad- y las poderosas fuerzas, tanto naturales como históricas, que las rodean. Kim Young-sook y Han Mi-ja empiezan su preparación como haenyeo. A ...

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

Fulbert is fully happy, the system provides him “a charming life”. However, real life continues there, stalking, inescapable, and nothing can avoid the unforeseen circumstances of fate. Through twelve stories, Alicia Fenieux invites us to visit a future where real life coexists with fictitious realities as well as holograms and avatars do so with humans of flesh and blood; a world where the longing for the past is as strong as the fascination that arouse science and technology. It is the daily life of the years to come with its intimate, disconcerting and also ferocious dilemmas; a future ...

Nos encontramos frente a una cuidada selección de doce cuentos en los que Uribe Armijo, con una rara perfección estilística, da origen a un libro entretenido y a la vez perturbador, en donde lo fantástico, irrumpiendo desde oscuros rincones de lo cotidiano, nos estimula a plantearnos otras perspectivas -todas distintas; ninguna definitiva- para tratar de entender aquello tan inapreciable que llamamos realidad.