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In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Una novela épica sobre el destino de una niña huérfana en tiempos de la Revolución iraní. A principios de los años cincuenta, en un Irán poderoso pero sumido en un sinfín de disensiones, un humilde chófer del ejército iraní llamado Behruz atraviesa Teherán de vuelta a casa. De pronto, llega a sus oídos el sollozo débil y lastimero de un bebé. Lo que no sabe Behruz es que esa niña, a la que llamará Aria, va a provocar un vuelco radical en sus vidas. A través de los ojos de una recién nacida, conoceremos a tres mujeres muy distintas obligadas por el azar a hacer de madre de...

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all...

Marcos tiene un don. Justo en el momento que va a dar un giro a su vida, una llamada de teléfono cambia radicalmente los acontecimientos.