Familia

This volume brings together six stories by Nobel laureate Issac Bashevis Singer, six unpublished masterpieces (with the exception of The Guest, published in our Mini-readings collection). The world described by Isaac Bashevis Singer in his novels and stories evidences the destruction of a threatened culture, but this destruction is not described by Bashevis Singer as a process coming from the outside world, but rather from within Jewish families, more permeable to modernity of what was believed. Thus, his characters are young men destined to be rabbis who lose their faith, Jewish-Polish women ...

In 1956, after leaving behind his ordeal in the gulag, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wanted to get lost in a quiet corner of the USSR, and applied for employment as a mathematics teacher. While looking for accommodations in the town that was sent, saw the hut of Matrona, an elderly widow who lived with a lame cat and a goat for company and decided to stay there.

Un grupo de viajeros se ven atrapados en el Orient Express en plena tormenta de nieve. Entre ellos pronto se descubre un cadáver. El asesino tiene que ser uno de los presentes. Al detective más famoso de la historia le corresponde averiguar quién ha cometido el crimen.

Bagdad, primavera del dos mil tres, mentre els tambors de guerra amenacen la ciutat, l’Erfan, una nena de tretze anys, representa la seva darrera funció, " El llac dels cignes " . La seva única preocupació és ballar, li fa il·lusió arribar a ser la gran Pavlova iraquiana. Viu feliç amb la seva família, els pares, la Bibi i la seva germaneta petita, la Mawj. Fins que un gran terrabastall canvia la seva confortable vida de soca-rel, la guerra li esborra totes les il·lusions i la transporta a un altre món, ple de penúries, sense aigua, sense llum, on la prioritat és sobreviure....