El origen

A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals of gardening and the wonder of Nature. "I found myself translating a story written by someone I hardly knew, about some...

Una búsqueda frenética en una ciudad asolada por la enfermedad. En medio de un Madrid asolado por el virus, el detective Ulises Lombardi recibe el encargo de encontrar a un anciano centenario que ha desaparecido. El anciano posee una clave secreta que conecta con el pasado de Lombardi, guerrillero en la Argentina de su juventud, que marchó al exilio tras conocer la tortura y el horror. Se inicia así una carrera contrarreloj que el detective lleva a cabo junto a Sara, joven pelirroja, osada y absolutamente libre. Mientras el mundo parece sumirse en el apocalipsis, ambos recorren la ciudad...

The six stories that make up this book are all set in the islands of the South Pacific. Whether it be on the islands of Samoa, in Tahiti, or in Honolulu, all of these stories feature the development of tensions between the worldview and the lifestyle of the natives and those of the white men, representing an even more essential confrontation: the one between East and West. Maugham masterfully narrates political stories, stories of frustraded economic ambition, of incomplete or unrequited love, all of which share his talent for exposing the most elemental human passions, those which lead men...

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