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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
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Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2019]
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157 pages ; 21 cm
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While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and,...
3) El naranjo
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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261 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
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Cinco relatos donde Martin II, hijo de Cortes con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martin I; Polibio de Megalopolis reflexiona sobre Escipion Emiliano; un galan de Hollywood visita un prostibulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genoves cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismisimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras las...
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