La isla del Gallo

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

Libro informativo sobre el agua: el ciclo del agua, los ríos, los mares y océanos, la energía del agua...

A sixteen-year-old girl writes in her diary about all the problems and events of her life, which include romance, depression, animal rights, stress, and health.