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In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts...

ADA JACOBS, personaje atractivo, de carácter fuerte, obstinado y a la vez tierno, entrañable y muchas veces conmovedor, se debate entre su presente y las dudas y el desconocimiento que tiene de su pasado. Necesita conocer la verdadera identidad de sus padres y sus raíces. No quiere huir de su historia, sino que quiere conocerla con certeza para cimentar su presente y su futuro. Su infancia transcurre en el París ocupado por los nazis y en un pequeño pueblo del sur de Francia al que fue evacuada. Finalizada la contienda, regresa a París. La aparición en su vida de un pariente, del que...

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Lost in life, the young protagonists Sara and Matías spend their days drifting and challenging the stability of their comfortable existences. They question the conventions of society with their precocious intellects, their last bastion of defense against what they view as a banal world. Thus, suicide appears hand-in-hand with the vertigo of their lives as the ultimate answer to their growing disappointment. Extraviados frente a la vida, Sara y Matías, los jóvenes protagonistas pasan sus días a la deriva, desafiando la estabilidad de sus acomodadas vidas y las convenciones de una sociedad...