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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Zazie en el metro, el primer gran éxito del escritor francés Raymond Queneau. En esta historia, la joven y traviesa Zazie recorre las calles del París de los años cincuenta en compañía de los más disparatados personajes. Una original obra plagada de giros inesperados que no dejará a nadie indiferente. ¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos hecho por...

Everybody knows Charlotte Brontë. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she's a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte? Charlotte Brontë Revisited looks at Charlotte through 21st-century eyes. Discover her private world of convention, rebellion and imagination, and how they shaped her life, writing and obsessions — including the paranormal,...

A cookbook unlike any other. Featuring ten recipes from each of Italy's twenty regions, Cooking with Giovanni Caboto is an exhaustive tour of traditional Italian cuisine, with all two hundred dishes tested and approved by the chefs at the Club's famous kitchen. An invaluable resource for experts and beginners alike.

Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a documentary film. Exploring a variety of works by contemporary artists and writers who exemplify poetic thinking, this book draws our attention to one of the...

Philippe, jeune homosexuel, n'a jamais pu réellement s'épanouir... Le tome I de cette saga en trois parties nous a permis de comprendre que l'autoritarisme de Monette, sa grand-mère, ajouté à une éducation castratrice quasi monacale et une enfance solitaire dans la propriété familiale du Castelnau n'ont pas permis à Philippe de s'épanouir. Replié sur lui-même, très jeune une homophilie naissante le pousse vers les garçons de son âge,...

There are two things that can last into eternity. 13 Forevers: Stories and Reflections on Death and Love is a collection of short works (mostly stories) which dives deep into dual themes, both in all of their emotional complexity. * Meet a cannibal who's starved for affection in "Consumption." * Experience a mystical connection forged through our memorial rituals in "Flowers at Funerals." * Discover how mind-blowing sex can lead to murder in "The...

A photographer descends into New York City's chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest   It's 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job offers a painfully clear perspective on a city sick with madness, fraught with crime, and coming apart at the seams. Larkin's curiosity soon leads to a subterranean world of all the city's secret dangers, including...

She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding British writer. This is a striking, supple and direct debut from an English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It's a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming on the same holiday when an infant, then grows up...

From the war-torn Jordan Valley to our nation's capital, Exiles reaches into the life of one man and one woman to explore one of the longest-lasting and most painful situations in our time: the displacement of the Palestinians and the unceasing turmoil in the Middle East. This is a story about the search and battle for identity of a people who have paid the price of no peace in the land of the Bible, who are expected to pay a debt to the dead and...