El misterio de la Barca Varada

Una novela llena de aventuras, amor, heroísmo y traiciones, que nos permite entender la situación actual de Siria, firmada por Maha Akhtar, autora best seller por La nieta de la maharaní.

Evitaré hablarle en acertijos. De modo accidental descubrí un terrible secreto. Al hacerlo firmé mi sentencia de muerte, pero logré burlarla hace seis años. Desde entonces me limito a huir, a ocultarme y a intentar comprender lo que tengo entre manos. En dos ocasiones me he atrevido a deslizar pequeños fragmentos de este asunto en oídos que me parecían fiables. Y lo he pagado caro... El precio que le exijo a usted, si es que acepta conocer mi historia, se llama confianza. Necesito tener la certeza de que llegará hasta el final, de que se arriesgará conmigo. Después, deberá ser...

As an untried priest, Sayo learns he is to be like no other priest before him. His man god father, Zandar, he learns the new language of writing. He also learns he will find the joy of his heart and know of the love that surpasses any others. Noya is but a child when her parents die and she is forced into a life of servitude as a slave to the high priestess, Dostra. At the urging of the man god, Zandar, she becomes part of miracle changing Sayo’s body from boy to man. From that moment on, she relies on him to become her protector and teacher in the art of healing.

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Part political expose, part literary tour-de-force, SINCHI is a gory exploration of one of the darkest periods in Peru's history. Bartoli skilfully sews Peru's mythological history in with the atrocities of the 1980-1993 guerrilla war between American-funded paramilitaries and the insurgent Sendero Luminoso. Weaving an ambitious historical thread that ties together subjugators and their victims across centuries, Bartoli's narration dances between black humour and ferocious accusation as he relates his own account of a civilisation-shattering violence kept...