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Michel Ezra Safra y sus hijos
by Amnon Shamosh
Michel Ezra Safra y sus hijos por Amnon Shamosh “Michel Ezra Safra y sus hijos” es una saga familiar, escrita por el muy bien conocido escritor Israelí Amnon Shamosh. La historia es semi biográfica y toma lugar de forma parcial en Alepo, Siria, el lugar de nacimiento del autor. El libro describe la vida, las luchas, y la dispersión de una adinerada familia de sirio-judíos durante el curso de tres generaciones, comenzando a los mediados de los años 30. La historia de la familia Ezra Safra es la historia de una familia judía del medio oriente y sus valores básicos tradicionales, los cuales son constantemente desafiados por otras normas, ya sean circunstanciales como universales. Sacudida por levantamientos locales como globales, la familia encabezada por Michel y su hermosa esposa Linda, es obligada a abandonar su hogar, la ciudad de Alepo, durante los disturbios generados por la resolución de las Naciones Unidas a finales de 1947, de establecer el estado judío en Palestina. Michel, un hombre práctico, continúa manejando su imperio económico. Su poder sobre sus hijos parece desvanecerse, sin embargo, aunque aún disfruta de su respeto y cariño. Rachmo, el hijo mayor y su aparente heredero, dirige la sucursal del negocio familiar en Paris, pero su comportamiento como hombre de familia no cumple con los estándares de sus padres. Alberto, el hermano menor, aborrece el negocio familiar y rehuye el curso que se espera que tome. Encuentra una salida en las actividades sionistas clandestinas, incluyendo el “contrabando” de judíos hacia Palestina. Los otros 5 hijos e hijas Safra emigran a Europa, Estados Unidos e Israel. Lo que más preocupa, obsesiona y perturba a Michel, no es la situación financiera de su imperio, sino el grave “pecado” que ha cometido. Cuando la vieja sinagoga de Alepo fue incendiada, Michel rescató los rollos de la Torá “Aram de Soba” y logró rescatarlos del fuego. Se llevó un pedazo de su más preciado y sagrado rollo y secretamente lo guardó en una caja fuerte en Niza, Francia. Mientras su tesoro está protegido, Michel interpreta las tragedias que sufre su familia como un castigo divino. A través de la novela, el lector sigue a Michel a través de sus viajes por el mundo, estableciendo asuntos familiares como comerciales. Sin embargo sufre de una débil salud y de culpa de conciencia. La vida de su hijo Alberto, ahora un influyente miembro de una comunidad colectiva en Israel, es completamente ajeno a él. La saga de la familia Ezra Safra llega a su final cuando Michel muere de tristeza unos pocos días después de la muerte de su nieto durante la guerra de los Seis Días en 1967. Más tarde, Rachmo, que tomó parte en el secreto de su padre, muere de un ataque al corazón al saber que el rollo en Niza ha sido robado. Linda concuerda unirse con sus hijos en Israel, pero rechaza vivir con ellos. Ella escoge vivir una vida solitaria, rodeada de fotos y memorias del pasado. La novela “Michel Ezra Safra” fue llevada a la televisión como una mini-serie, teniendo un altísimo éxito. Amnon Shamosh nació en Siria en 1929, inmigró a Tel Aviv de niño, y llegó a ser posteriormente uno de los miembros fundadores de Kibutz Ma'ayan Baruch, donde reside hasta hoy en día. Se graduó en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén .Es autor tanto de poesía como de prosa para niños y adultos, su trabajo se ha traducido al inglés, al español, y al francés, y una de sus novelas fue llevada a la televisión en forma de miniserie. Amnon Shamosh ha sido galardonado con el Premio "Agnon", denominado con ese nombre en honor al laureado célebre israelí Nóbel de Literatura, el Premio "Shalom-Aleichem", el Premio del Primer Ministro de creatividad, el Premio de literatura del presidente de Israel, y numerosos premios de literatura adicionales.
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FictionThe Fourth Girl On The Left
by Andreu Martín
Sinopsis World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel and groceries, with the approval of the local authorities, and that German submarines arrive at Cape Ixent where all kinds of interests and conflicts with secret services, double agents and spies from here and there are cooked. n the heart of this Barcelona in the midst of an urban boom, with the noise of the streets, the bustle of bars, casino games and evening shows, comes Amadeu, a peasant boy fresh out of the seminar, who is looking for a dancer with whom his father had lived a strange adventure. She has only one clue: she is the fourth girl to the left of a photograph she keeps in her jacket pocket. She immediately discovers that her name is Amanda Rogent and that she is on display at Barcelona's Moulin Rouge: a whole vedet who loves to scandalize. Amadeus needs to find answers, but discovering the truth is not always the best thing that can happen to you… After titles such as Death Story, Tibidabo's Harem, Everyone Will Remember You, Harem's Favorite, You’re Going To Say I’m Crazy and Cops (the latter, signed with Joan Miquel Capell), Andreu Martín returns to "Crims.cat" with a very retrospective novel, set in the exciting Barcelona of the first decades of the twentieth century.
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September 2019A busca: memórias da resistência
by Vieira, Liszt
A vida clandestina de um militante da luta armada contra a ditadura militar brasileira nos anos 1970. Ações armadas, congressos clandestinos, viagens sigilosas, prisão, tortura, seqüestro de diplomata, banimento, exílio. Dez anos de exílio em diversos países, Argélia, Cuba, Chile de Allende até o golpe de Pinochet, Argentina de Perón antes do golpe militar de 1976, França, Portugal. Emoção a cada página nesta biografia em que o real e o imaginário se mesclam. Muitas vezes, a realidade parece ficção, e a ficção, realidade, formando o que poderia ser chamado de autoficção histórica. Um livro fundamental para o conhecimento da resistência contra a ditadura militar no Brasil.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe black sea of indifference
by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati
Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.
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FictionDarknet Undercover
by Jando / Christopher Groß
Die junge investigative Journalistin Kira stößt auf eine Spezialeinheit, die im Darknet undercover operiert. Die Einheit versucht die wahren Identitäten von anonymen Verbrechern aufzudecken. Kira schafft es ein Teil der sogenannten „Sweeper“ zu werden. Auf der Jagd nach Verbrechern im Darknet, erfährt sie von Gefangenschaft ihres vor Jahren tot erklärtem kleinen Bruders in dem Kinderpornographiering „The Paradise“. Der abartige Ring wird von reichen und einflussreichen Leuten betrieben. Gefangen in einem Netz aus Misstrauen um Kira herum, muss sie ihre eigenen Fäden spinnen, um nicht selbst im Fadenkreuz zu landen. Trotzdem versucht sie ihrem Ziel näher kommen, um die Täter zu überführen und ihren kleinen Bruder zu befreien. Wird Kira es schaffen?
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2017ARAWETÉ
A Tupi people from the Amazon forest
by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (author), Camila de Caux (author) and Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (author)
Result of an academic research carried out in the 1980s by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, this book was published in 1992, following an edition adapted for wider, non-specialized audiences who showed great interest in the Araweté way of life. This third edition, revised and expanded with new chapters based on recent studies, celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the pioneering research by one of the most respected Brazilian anthropologists, and, above all, retrieves the struggle of this people to survive, resist and reinvent themselves without losing their culture.
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2021El síndrome de Bergerac
by Pablo Gutiérrez
I was an average girl like any other. I was going to class, I argued with my parents, I loved my friends unconditionally and, from time to time, I would fall in love with someone I shouldn't have, as happens to everyone else. There was nothing novelistic about me, nothing heroic that deserved a handful of pages, and that is why this story will not be about my parents or my colleagues or my lovers; it will not be about the routine of a high school student who is bored at school... This story will have only one main character and that character will be a nose. A famous, disproportionate nose. The nose of a hero born in Bergerac and named Cyrano.
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FictionApril 2018My old guerrilla
by Álvaro Filho
A narrative full of time, memories on the shoulders, rusty bodies smelling of sea air, a testimony of uncertain memories of stories. The novel 'My old guerrilla' tells the story of a exiled writer abroad who returns to hometown (Olinda), mother's request, to try to dissuade the father of the idea of killing the president, who took power after a coup. Alvaro Filho teaches us that we must "silence to hear the wind," time to understand the affection of places and things, calmly swallowing discomfort, and wisdom to understand our ancestry. 'My old guerrilla' is like a reef solid melts into air, and the wind sweeping "flesh, bone, blood, paper and ink."
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2019To the barricades. Culture, identity and political mobilization
by José Álvarez Junco
This book gathers some of the author’s many works, selected for their interest about recent historiographical debates. They analyze the main topics that have articulated his long research career: history and theory of social movements, especially of the workers; doctrines, ideologies, myths and rhetoric; the concept of populism and the evolution of nationalist phenomena. The monograph is a good example of the best academic analysis of culture, identity and political mobilization in contemporary Spain.
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Adventure2019La Dame Chevalier and Salomon’s lost table
by A.Z. Codenonsi
The years is 1927 and the murder of a soldier in a military hospital in Morocco begins a chance for an extremely valuable artefact, disappeared for more than a thousand years: the Table of Salomon, King of Kings, that would give its owner the wisdom of a thousand wise men. And when the Bureau’s investigation gets to the weapon used in La Dame Chevalier’s parents’ murder, the agent decides to travel to north Africa looking for the artefact and answers. Along with the young Justine Carbonneau, both women go to the desert among a war between the empire and the Berbers, fighting for their independence. But Chevalier will have company. Mercenaries led by the mysterious organization Ostia Mithrae also
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Children's & YASeptember 2021Disidentes | Dissidents
by Rosa Huertas
Ada lives in a perfect world and leads a perfectly organised life in Sector 7. Everything there is aseptic: there are no wars or diseases, and history and art are unnecessary. Things seem to be under control, until one day Ada’s world falls apart. She flees to the polluted city, a Madrid in ruins where she is to discover a reality that will make her doubt her deepest convictions. A dystopian novel that addresses the issues of our times: freedom, truth, disease and social control.
