"SINFONÍA CUBANA III"

Una ciudad dividida. El fin de una era. Ella está ahí para contarlo. Noviembre 1989 La caída del muro es inminente y, como espectadora, Luz es privilegiada. Hace un año que llegó a Berlín desde Chile para cursar un doctorado en Filosofía. Son años difíciles. Ha conocido la intimidad de los alemanes en la ciudad amurallada. La noche del 9 de noviembre asiste a la conferencia de prensa en que Günter Schabowski anuncia sorpresivamente la apertura de la frontera entre las dos Alemanias. Desde ese minuto, sumergida en la multitud y el frenesí de la historia, Luz vive de cerca las...

The story begins in the projects of the South Bronx, New York. There we will meet Sarah Williams, a single mother of twin girls Michelle and Miranda and son Jason. The Williams' family struggles to break the cycle of poverty in the face of gangs, drugs, and prostitution. Jason, the youngest attemtps to assert his role as "man of the house," but is overwhelmed by the task at hand. Thinking that he is just one more mouth to feed, he leaves in the middle of the night and begins his life on the streets of New York city. We follow Jason as he negotiates his new world. With the thought the he will...

The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil, bloody family vendettas, and rising tensions between secular powers and an ascendant church, Sigrid Undset’s spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the tetralogy. When the orphaned Olav and his foster sister Ingunn became betrothed in their youth, a chain of events was set in motion that...

The hero is William, son of an Irish painter who committed suicide and burned his paintings. Only one survived, sold to a poet, and William travels to buy it back. In this way he meets the poet's daughter, Isabel, married for 24 hours and unhappy.