Rubber shoes

Two short stories by Argentine author Ana Maria Shua including the title story about a young boy who, after realizing that everything in television is a lie, passes through a blue door into a world where everything is true.

Joe is eleven years old and does not remember ever living outside of his hospital room. His illness does not let him leave for even a moment and the few visits he receives can bring dangerous microbes to his "bubble." His parents died in a car accident many years ago and so the only person around is his sister, Beth. But his life drastically changes when a new nurse arrives from India in search of a better life in the United Kingdom.

En la América del siglo XVI, un joven mestizo de tan sólo quince años participa en la búsqueda de un quimérico reino del que se cuentan fabulosas y misteriosas historias de oro y mucha riqueza.

Abelardo, joven filósofo prisionero del tedio, busca el sentido de la existencia fuera de la ciudad, encontrando inesperadas respuestas en la soledad del bosque. Eloísa, condesa descendiente de la dinastía más antigua de Francia, encontrará un amor que la llevará a decisiones drásticas. Esta novela renueva el romance medieval que ha cautivado a artistas, intelectuales y escritores: La historia de las calamidades. Al final, este amor enfrentará el reto más difícil…