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In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can't seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is--the king's son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure. All three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold, their people's last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. However, change comes on...

El presente libro re ne la obra cuent stica de Guillermo Samperio (1948). Es un especialista mexicano del cuento, quien despu s de su primera colecci n de relatos, Cuando el tacto toma la palabra, ha consagrado toda su imaginaci n creativa a la literatura. Logra que lo cotidiano y lo mon tono experimenten desplazamientos pues, como l mismo afirma, "la palabra es el principio del tacto; el tacto es el principio de la vida. la palabra es vida".

Alec, dibujante de mediana edad, y Eve, novelista de un mítico éxito editorial, son los únicos habitantes de un islote diminuto de la costa atlántica. Se evitan, hasta el día en que una inexplicable avería de todos los medios de comunicación les fuerza a salir de su celosa soledad. ¿Qué está pasando? ¿Ha sufrido un cataclismo el planeta tras las amenazas continuas de un conflicto nuclear y de atentados terroristas a gran escala? ¿Qué ha ocurrido en las islas cercanas, en la costa, en el resto del país, en el resto del planeta? Alec resolverá, poco a poco, el misterio. Gracias a ...

'I absolutely loved it. A delight . . . so fresh and clever and subversive' Kate Atkinson 'I completely loved Lillian on Life. What a great voice, what energy and wit . . . very original and often extremely funny' Karen Joy Fowler Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not at all the life she expected. Walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern options for women, Lillian has grappled with parental disappointment, society's expectations and the vagaries of love and sex. As a narrator she's bold...