La isla del olvido

The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil, bloody family vendettas, and rising tensions between secular powers and an ascendant church, Sigrid Undset’s spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the tetralogy. When the orphaned Olav and his foster sister Ingunn became betrothed in their youth, a chain of events was set in motion that...

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...

Apasionante historia de superación y amor a través del tiempo. Adela es una joven insegura que intenta ser madre sin conseguirlo; con un marido que la maltrata psicológica y físicamente. Entrelazada con su historia está la de Benito, que encuentra casualmente un proyectil de la guerra de África que guardaba su abuelo. Intrigado, empieza a investigar y descubre una vida llena de experiencias interesantes, con amores imposibles, desafíos y retos de superación. Una apasionante historia que refleja las difíciles condiciones de vida de nuestro pasado reciente, el atraso cultural y...

Tras el suicidio de su madre, Mateo vuelve a la casa familiar para no dejar solo a su padre. La noticia de esa muerte le ha salvado de la suya propia, pues él también intentaba quitarse la vida cuando recibió la funesta llamada. Mateo se enfrentará de nuevo a la complicada convivencia con su padre, a la furibunda competencia con su hermano e incluso entablará una prometedora amistad con su vecina adolescente, Micaela.