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Meet Quentin P.He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not …

Elena Ferrante, Celia Filipetto: Un mal nombre (Paperback, 2017, LUMEN)
Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey …

Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is …

A cautionary short story about the dangers of unexamined traditions and the dark side of human nature.
La curiosidad me llevó a oírlo en audiolibro por Mauricio Duque en 1001noches.co . Y se cumple el objetivo de oír las fuentes principales de los cuentos de Ali Baba, Sinbad, etc. Tambien hay algunas historias extrañas que valen la pena. Pero el resto, incluyendo casi todas las parábolas, consiste en historias llenas de misoginia, de adulación al poder, de parábolas que enaltecen y encumbran a los abusadores. Un texto terriblemente conflictivo, cuya lectura seguramente requiere una visión histórica comparativa.


Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the …