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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of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keser?, tries to narrate his life while he searches for B?'s unpublished novel.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.

"Gautreaux es un sólido y admirable escritor, aplaudido por autores brillantes como Charles Frazier y Annie Proulx". Jam Poste, The Guardian. "Gautreaux es un contador de historias a la antigua, un hilandero fino con una moral". Malena Watrous, Sunday Book Review. Como si de una crónica se tratara, Los mismos sitios, las mismas cosas narra las vidas comunes de gente normal ante circunstancias y decisiones extraordinarias. Un granjero que se enfrenta al reto de criar a su nieta; un joven que se enamora platónicamente de una voz de la radio o un ingeniero que provoca un accidente de tren de...

En el Ricardo Nixon School reina el tedio y la frustración. Durante su primera experiencia como profesor, Arturo Navarro, uno de los miles de egresados que espera encontrar trabajo, tendrá que lidiar con los excesos, la presión social y el desengaño propios de un colegio particular subvencionado.

This is about the life of Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter and the baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, this is the begining of the real Candide's life.