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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...

« Une œuvre contemporaine essentielle qui mêle, avec une finesse digne de Margaret Atwood, l’écosystème merveilleux d’Avatar et l’énigme extraterrestre de Premier Contact. » Stephen Baxter, auteur d’Evolution. Ils sont cinquante - des femmes, des hommes de tous horizons. Ils ont définitivement quitté la Terre pour, au terme d’un voyage interstellaire de cent soixante ans, s’établir sur une planète lointaine qu’ils ont baptisée Pax. Ils ont laissé derrière eux les guerres, la pollution, l’argent, pour se rapprocher de « la nature ». Tout recommencer. Construire...

Jim Nash is back down Mexico way, and he's not happy about it. That could be because he's helping a friend track down a cold-blooded killer who also happens to be the woman's daughter. It might be because he's Kill On Sight, thanks to a narrow escape from cartel sicarios a number of years ago. Or, it might be because he's been forced to replenish his hoard of stolen cartel cash, and he's anxious to get home. Whatever the reason, he's finding himself knee-deep in bullets, bandits, and bodies, and he's only just crossed la frontera.

Luego de la muerte de su madre, Fernanda viaja con su familia a Nueva York para intentar dejar atrás el duelo y encontrar una felicidad perdida junto a su pareja y su hija. Es un viaje largamente deseado, pero pronto descubre que una presencia fantasmal la acecha desde la oscuridad. Después de La sed, novela en la que incursionó por primera vez en el gótico, Marina Yuszczuk explora esta vez la frontera con el cuento de hadas, el lado más oscuro de la maternidad (o de la vida familiar), en donde no se distingue entre madrastras, madres, brujas. Para que sepan que vinimos es, de principio...