As: 546 books
by Javier Marías
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, NPR Great Reads, and Onion A.V. Club Best Book of 2013
Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the...
by Adriana Macías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Desafía tus límites para alcanzar tus sueños.
Adriana Macías entrega en este libro una historia emotiva e impactante. Sus personajes son guerreros discapacitados que deben enfrentar las fuerzas del mal que acechan a Villa Eclipse, su pueblo. Comandados por un niño valiente y decidido,...
Between Eternities
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.
Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist,...
by As'Ad Abukhalil
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed...
by Asım Bezirci
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Monografi, bir yazar ya da şair üzerine ayrıntılı inceleme demektir ve edebiyatımızda örneği az sayıdadır. Asım Bezirci, nesnel/bilimsel eleştirinin olduğu kadar monografinin de öncülerindendir. Onun monografileri (Abdülhak Hamit, Ahmet Haşim, Orhan Veli, Ataç, Orhan Kemal, Sabahattin...
by Asım Bezirci
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: Turkish
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Asım Bezirci'nin hazırladığı monografiler içinde önemli bir yer tutan "Orhan Veli", elinizdeki dokuzuncu basımla yeniden okuyucuya ulaşıyor. Kitapta, Orhan Veli'nin, yaşamı kişiliği, sanatı ve eserleri, yazarın gelişim çizgisi izlenerek değerlendiriliyor. Kitapta, ayrıca,...
by Javier Marías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Doce poemas de William Faulkner, pertenecientes a A Green Bough, traducidos por Javier Marías.
Los comentarios del gran autor español, en parte inéditos, y el recorrido por el Mississippi de Faulkner de la mano de Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, constituyen un extraordinario homenaje a William...
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city"...
by Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn Naasir as-Sa'dee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Stated Shaykh Muhammad 'Umar Bazmool, professor of higher studies at Umm al-Qura University in Makkah, in his introduction to the translation: "The author of this book, Questions and Answers Concerning the Foundations of Faith and Obstalces in its Path, is the virtuous Shaykh the scholar of Fiqh, Tafseer,...
by Martyr Mohammad Baqir As Sadr
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Not only is al-Mahdi (the Guided One) a materialization of an Islamic belief of a spiritual nature, but a model to a particular goal which humanity has been striving to achieve, as well as a form to a natural inspiration, through which people came to realize - in spite of their different
De cine
Aventuras y extravíos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013
«Este libro versa sobre grandes realizadores de cine. Es obviamente una selección o, si se quiere, un canon personal. El factor subjetivo no puede substraerse a esta antología. Quizás el lector lamente muchas ausencias. Mi intención, sin embargo, es ceñirme a aquéllos que mejor corresponden...
by Javier Marías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Una intensa narración sobre asuntos que nos atañen a todos: sobre el ocultamiento, los hechos y las intenciones; sobre el actuar sin saber y la voluntad que casi nunca se cumple; sobre la negación de las personas que una vez quisimos y el olvido y la indecisión; sobre la despedida, y también...
by Javier Marías
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2010
El hombre sentimental**, escrita con un ritmo que se acelera progresivamente hasta un inesperado desenlace, es el libro que, como señaló Juan Benet, dio inicio a una etapa nueva y más íntima en la obra de Javier Marías.**
Cuatro años han pasado desde que, en el tren que le conducía de...