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Lost in life, the young protagonists Sara and Matías spend their days drifting and challenging the stability of their comfortable existences. They question the conventions of society with their precocious intellects, their last bastion of defense against what they view as a banal world. Thus, suicide appears hand-in-hand with the vertigo of their lives as the ultimate answer to their growing disappointment. Extraviados frente a la vida, Sara y Matías, los jóvenes protagonistas pasan sus días a la deriva, desafiando la estabilidad de sus acomodadas vidas y las convenciones de una sociedad...

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

¿Se puede enseñar palabrotas en clase de Lengua o permitir que sean los propios alumnos quienes se evalúen? ¿Es razonable hablar de nuestras propias experiencias en una clase de educación sexual? ¿Cómo aceptar que, cuando te has marchado, la habitación que ocupabas en casa de tus padres no será nunca más tu habitación? Beatrice Hempel es una joven recién licenciada que da clases en un colegio privado estadounidense; todo es nuevo para ella: el trabajo, su compromiso matrimonial, o la vida sin su padre, muerto recientemente. Mientras se acostumbra a su nueva situación, intenta...

'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History . . . Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno . . . He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' Jonathan Raban, Observer