El hijo del héroe

Una novela de amor, con el sello Asís, que reúne a tres personajes que viven en París, pero provienen del mundo árabe. Un profesor egipcio (Fahd), un periodista del Líbano (Jalil) y una estudiante de Marruecos (Yashira).

HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW: The backdrop of Joseph Jay Deiss and Susanna Deiss' delightful historical novel Justa may be familiar to most readers: the city of Herculaneum, doomed to be buried under molten lava at the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavations are ongoing in a small fraction of what was once a sprawling, bustling city, and like similar works at Pompeii, those excavations have yielded tantalizing clues about the lives of the ordinary people who were trapped and killed there two thousand years ago. One such story involves a young woman named Justa whose mother was a freed...

A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) narrates the unimaginable life of B?, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. B? commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keser?, tries to narrate his life while he searches for B?'s unpublished novel. In 150 pages Kert?sz describes the torture of writing about horror and, defends the power of love, literature and memories to overcome the Auschwitz experience.

Una voz anónima, surgida de uno de esos grupos que asisten ociosos al espectáculo de las vidas ajenas, reconstruye un suceso en el que cinco destinos privados se van poco a poco entrelazando hasta convertirse en uno solo, colectivo: Esteban, el inocente, descubre de pronto el fascinante mundo del dinero, el lujo y el poder, y se empeñará a su manera en hacerse rico y poderoso; el pequeño Luciano, como para culminar el fervor religioso en el que le educaron, descubre el amor, un amor imposible, que sólo encontrará descanso en su plenitud; Belmiro, el viejo ilustrado, tras una vida de...