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Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)October 2021El año de la rata
by Jorge Alderete
Our forests are shrinking every year due to fires forestry. Trees and all life that inhabits them, from tiny microorganisms to families of birds and animals are destroyed by flames that in most cases, are caused by we, humans.
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FictionAndreaa Constantin
by Esteban Torres Lana
A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentPause and Sense
by Emily Atallah
Thousands of people say things such as “I have no time”, “when did life pass me by”, or “I have nothing left to live for.” According to the WHO, nearly 700,000 people commit suicide every year, and conditions such as depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and lack of purpose are increasingly rooted in our societies, blocking our view to a life full of light and possibilities. In the age of instant connectivity, we have never been as disconnected, unmotivated and empty as we are now. In these pages, you will find 10 practical tools that will help you get unstuck, find your way through pain, and reconnect with your purpose towards a plentiful life. The book is divided in three sections that help you understand what is valuable about life, what we can give to the world as human beings, and how we can embrace challenges, increase connectivity with each other and increase our awareness. This book invites you to enrich your own life, through reflections that help you go deep inside, and examples of how others who when through similar experiences, got through them to live a happier, meaningful, and purposeful life.
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The Countess and the Organ Player
by Cesia Hirshbein
In the historical context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the height of the Romantic era, the 19th century, Anton Bruckner, the famous Austrian composer and organist, falls in love with the imposing Countess Henriette. She had been appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Habsburg, to attend to her during the couple's Mexican endeavor. They had been named Emperor and Empress of Mexico and would embark on a journey to America for this mission. Bruckner meets the countess by chance at the funeral of Maximilian, who had been assassinated in Querétaro in 1867, during the so-called Second Mexican Empire. On the recommendation of a musician friend of Henriette's, who sees him at the funeral, she takes piano lessons with Bruckner. When she tells him that she had accompanied the empress to Mexico, the composer becomes enchanted. He admired Maximilian and was passionate about Mexico; he had even wanted to accompany the emperor. Ultimately, the only trips he made were to give organ concerts in London and another at Notre Dame in Paris. Between classes, the countess tells him of the Atlantic crossing, the arrival in Veracruz, and the entrance to Mexico City. Gradually, they grow closer. In one of his concerts, Bruckner meets Franz Liszt, who was a patron of Maximilian's empire in Mexico. Meanwhile, the countess and the organist plan a Requiem, which will be the turning point between them.
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Secretos de un ausente
by LUIS CARRANZA TORRES
El abogado más renombrado del país, dueño de uno de los estudios jurídicos más poderosos, fundado y dirigido durante décadas con mano de hierro, ha desaparecido sin más, del sanatorio donde era atendido por una dolencia cardíaca. Pide que no lo busquen, pero deja por detrás muchas cuestiones pendientes. Desaparece pero no se va de las vidas de sus allegados. Ha dejado sustitutos que actúen por él. Cecilia y Agustina, medias hermanas y sobrinas del ausente, de la noche a la mañana deberán lidiar con un estudio pródigo en cuestiones que desconocían, pese a trabajar allí durante años, y que las ponen en riesgo. Descubrirán, entonces, que el mundo perfecto en el que han vivido no lo es tanto y que, tras las apariencias, muchos son muy diferentes de lo que pretenden mostrar. Sobre todo, en aquellos ámbitos en los que el poder, el dinero y el derecho se dan la mano. Surgen extraños adversarios que en parte se muestran y en parte permanecen en las sombras, que conocen más que suficiente de todo y de todos, como para moverse entre ellos y saber descargar sus extraños golpes. En un punto medio entre la intimidad psicologista y la ironía con rasgos costumbristas, desde sus primeras páginas el autor nos sitúa en un complejo universo de personajes y hechos de las más variadas especies. Todos, lanzados en pos de los secretos de quien ya no está, los que deberán descubrir para ponerse a salvo.
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November 2016Residuos de amor
by Mario Salazar Montero
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-4-7 Titel “Residuos de Amor”. Mario Salazar Montero. Cuentos Nueve cuentos, en apariencia algo crudos o desconsiderados, la mayoría de ellos en torno a personajes femeninos en una ciudad populosa en Suramérica: adolescentes, secretarias, amas de casa, solteronas. También un travesti y un tarado. Los cuentos intentan narrar en primera persona sus experiencias con el afecto, el amor, la amistad, el pasado y el futuro. No siempre hay un final feliz esperando al lector, pero si de pronto un remedo de esperanza. Son Residuos de Amor. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch
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September 2027Las cuatro Paolinas Polinsky
by Becky Rubinstein
Description Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky is a story that takes place in the Mexican Bajío, in the times of the poet Ramón López Velarde. This book narrates the adventures and lives of four generations of women whose existence takes place between the Porfiriato and post-revolutionary Mexico, whose physical and spiritual landscapes become extraordinary in after-dinner chats, in the interpretation of dreams, in poetry readings and mare trot journeys that mark not only the transit of the Polinskys, but of the entire country. The time of this story is marked by the memories of the Paolinas' ancestors, re-presented in the voice and stews of Doña Clementina and through the writing of Don Ramiro's Almanaque. In this novel, Becky Rubinstein recreates a beautiful provincial Mexico, but also a convulsive nation, full of fantastic characters that inhabit every corner and town in the interior of the country; A Mexico that has apparently vanished, but that survives in family stories and in the verses of López Velarde, in that soft homeland that not only saw the arrival of modernity, the train and the iron and concrete palaces, but also a violent social revolution that transformed everyone's walk on trotting roads, and later, on stumbling avenues infested by motorized vehicles. Welcome to this journey through time to recognize ourselves in the faces of each of the four Paolinas Polinsky. Sinopsis Las Cuatro Paolinas Polinsky es una historia que ocurre en el bajío mexicano, en tiempos del poeta Ramón López Velarde. Este libro narra las aventuras y la vida de cuatro generaciones de mujeres cuya existencia transcurre entre el porfiriato y el México posrevolucionario, cuyos paisajes físicos y espirituales se vuelven extraordinarios en charlas de sobremesa, en la interpretación de los sueños, en lecturas de poemarios y enrecorridos a trote de yegua que van marcando no sólo el tránsito de las Polinsky, sino del país entero. El tiempo de esta historia lo pautan los recuerdos de los ancestros de las Paolinas, re-presentados en la voz y los guisos de doña Clementina y a través de la escritura del Almanaque de don Ramiro. En esta novela, Becky Rubinstein, recrea un hermoso México provincial, pero también una nación convulsa, llena de personajes fantásticos que habitan en todos los rincones y pueblos del interior del país; un México que en apariencia se ha esfumado, pero que sobrevive en los relatos familiares y en los versos de López Velarde, en esa suave patria que no sólo vio la llegada de la modernidad, del tren y los palacios de hierro y concreto, sino también una violenta revolución social que transformó el andar de todos sobre caminos al trote, y después, sobre tropezadas avenidas infestadas por vehículos motorizados. Bienvenidos a este viaje por el tiempo para reconocernos en los rostros de cada una de la cuatro Paolinas Polinsky.
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Children's & YAHow Do They Protect Themselves?
by Clementina Equihua
When animals feel threatened, they react or adapt to the new conditions of their environment to save their life. These behaviors can be innate, genetically programmed, or learned, and answer to the way animals interact with others and with the physical environment where they live. With this book, the little readers can learn about the survival strategies that animals use to adapt themselves to difficult conditions such as weather, vegetation, natural disasters, lack of food, and predators.
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Children's & YA2019Animal Love
A Crazy Flirt
by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas
We hug, kiss and cuddle when we are in love. We want to always be close to that special person and even surprise them with gifts. All these actions also take part in the animal kingdom, but not only that! Animals also present a range of endless strange behaviors that will leave you speechless: chases, choreographies and tricks are only some of the things animals do to flirt their mating partners in order to stay together. A book with a sense of humour, but with a scientific and theoretical basis, full of unusual and amusing facts that aim to arouse your curiosity through simple texts, but incorporating the terms used in this specific field, what will broaden the reader's lexicon.
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Thriller / suspenseJune 2013Dolor y Dinero-La Verdadera Historia
Pain and Gain-The Untold True Story
by Marc Schiller
La verdadera historia tras la película Dolor y Dinero Este libro demuestra que a veces la verdad es más extraña que la ficción! Era el año 1994, Marc y su familia vivian una vida normal en Miami, Florida. No se imaginaba que en Noviembre de ese año, su vida y la de su familia iba a cambiar para siempre. Los acontecimientos que se iban a desarrollarse no podían ser concebidos por la imaginación más vivida.En este sorprendente libro narra los acontecimientos que condujeron a su secuestro y su intento de asesinato. Lo transportara y colocara en la bodega donde fue encarcelado y le dara una perspectiva única de los hechos ocurridos durante ese mes horroroso y la lucha física y mental para vencer los obstáculos y sobrevivir.Marc narra su historia en detalle tortuoso. Su humillación, dolor y sufrimiento a manos de la banda Sun Gym y su supervivencia milagrosa.Usted va a entender cómo y por qué él sobrevivió y que a un ser humano le pueden quitar todo pero nunca su espíritu y la determinación de sobrevivir.Nadie creyó su historia, ni la policía ni ninguna otra persona. Sin embargo, mantuvo firme y decidido a llevar a los criminales ante la justicia antes de que vuelvan cometer otro crimen similar. ¡Una historia verdaderamente desgarradora y que no solamente usted no podrá olvidar pronto, sino que le motivará e inspirará!
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Science fictionPsique La sombra del espíritu
by Iván R. Sánchez
Grace has been told what to do during her whole life. Her mother has dragged her from one place to another through life without any consideration for her. No one understands her and she lives constantly bored. In a twist of fate, she arrives in a big city. There she discovers friendship, love, but also who she is. Her father, who disappeared since she was very young, left her some letters to be handed out after her fifteenth birthday. Now, close to being sixteen, not only will she painfully discover what it means to grow older, but also what lies inside her. The horror will appear in her life with each day before that celebration. A spiral of events unleashed by the shadow of the spirit that promised her that from there on, nothing would be the same. This story, from the PSIQUE universe, tells the vicissitudes of a teenager tormented by a specter: her father. Enclosed by maternal protections. Subjected to the banality of a world she does not want to belong to. It is a reflection on life, freedom and family, within a background in which there are mysterious deaths and in which people are much more than they appear to be. A world where the mind can reach and overcome any limit.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentLogro profesional y económico
¡Atrévete… ya! El cielo es el límite
by Mariel Mambretti
This volume, central to the work by location, is also central by content. We have already discussed the gifts of an attentive mind and a harmonious body. Here you will find the means to take advantage of these tools in a concrete way, and thus progress in the workplace and economically. In the first part, we spell out the keys to making a good initial impression and making your presence prevail in a cordial and convincing way at the same time. You will also find suggestions on time management, valuable concepts on how to acquire and sustain the habit of order, how to express yourself correctly and effectively, and everything related to establishing a good work methodology. The second part talks about the intimate relationship between work and wealth, and establishes what steps are necessary for all professional or work effort to bear fruit in a comfortable present and in a planned and solid future. From all this, you will draw conclusions that will strengthen not only your wishes for success, but also your real opportunities to achieve it, from now on ...
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December 2019Cicatrices
by Mario Salazar Montero
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-0-9 Titel "Cicatrices". Mario Salazar Montero. Novela En un remoto puerto fluvial de la selva húmeda tropical ubicada sobre la franja ecuatorial del planeta tierra, Odín A., hombre joven e internauta primerizo, decide convertirse en un Historiador Universal. Los recursos y medios digitales de los cuales dispone para lograrlo a duras penas le permiten rastrear la azarosa y enrevesada historia del país en donde nació. Descubre sin embargo en el intento la existencia de una inteligencia artificial y de algoritmos. Papelito, mujer joven, víctima sobreviviente de un conflicto armado, forzada a recorrer y enfrentar ese mismo país, guardaespaldas de ocupación, de remate boxeadora e inteligente, resuelve su vida a golpes y le funciona. A contracorriente de creencias heredadas y de raíces africanas en un país de mestizos renegados, ellos dos reclaman lo que les pertenece, se otorgan su derecho a vivir de un recurso natural, el Oro, que otros explotan impunes y abusivos. Su reivindicación es una ofensa grave para otros, se hace merecedora de un escarmiento ejemplar. Su instinto alerta y su inteligencia, combinados, descubren y persiguen una opción temeraria para redimirse que también podría incluir el amor, otro recurso escaso, desde luego si la opción escogida funciona, al menos por un tiempo. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch.
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Children's & YAFebruary 2020
Verbedíns: La profecía de los lienzos perdidos
by Dalvareze
The Silver siblings have separated. Daniela has stayed in Monte Varetto, without completely understanding the events that occurred in The Fortress; Andrés has embarked on a meaningless journey, which will bring him a lot of pain. The War of the Inks has restarted and the guys will have to see their lives get mixed up with a conflict that their entire family has tried to avoid unsuccessfully. Without knowing very well what to do, they will discover a truth that will drag them to the depths of an ancient prophecy and it will be in their hands to stop the liberation of the Natural Masters, and with it, the end of the world as we know it. In the second novel of Verbedíns the readers will find high doses of action, magic and conspiracy.
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October 2019Keys to Creative and Innovative Religious Education
by Óscar Armando Pérez Sayago
Este libro brinda valiosas herramientas a padres y maestros sobre la nueva función cultural de la escuela en la enseñanza de la Educación Religiosa. Advierte respecto a la importancia de acompañar y orientar al estudiante para ayudar a comprender el hecho religioso, puesto que hoy más que nunca está expuesto a mucha información desestructurada e indiscriminada, a través de los medios de comunicación, que es importante discernir.
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Food & DrinkApril 2019Arepas colombianas: técnicas profesionales de cocina
by Carlos Gaviria Arbeláez
Sweet, salty or with a neutral flavor, arepas, an essential food in the diet of Colombians, are the protagonists in this book, which compiles the preparation techniques of 60 different types of arepas. From a dough that is assembled in different ways, either freehand, with a cutter, stuffed with double dough, stuffed with double arepa, cooked on the grill, slabs, pots, ovens or fried, the arepas that are prepared in the different areas of the country are arracacha, rice, corn, fermented corn, peeled and threshed corn; yam, potato, banana, wheat and cassava. Round in shape and variable in size, arepas, too, vary according to the secondary ingredients that are added, such as milk, butter, cheese, pork fat, egg, meat or pea. Easy to prepare, hot or cold, arepas are delicious at any time of the day; with coffee or chocolate, they always go well.
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July 2016Santo de palo
by Mario Salazar Montero
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-1-6 Titel “Santo de palo”. Mario Salazar Montero. Novela Existe sin duda alguna gente honesta en este mundo y en esta vida; gente admirable en quien confiar las vicisitudes íntimas y las incertidumbres, gente reconocible sin necesidad de alharaca de su parte, mortales comunes y corrientes, guiados por su propia experiencia, intuición y sufrimiento. Existe también desde luego otro tipo de consejeros, siempre en busca de reconocimiento, urgidos y ansiosos por obtener una aureola de bienhechores certificados, cueste lo que cueste, carentes de escrúpulos. A algunos entre estos últimos la suerte y la vida les sonrien, encuentran cómplices y adeptos, viven y mueren apestando a santidad comprada: son los inútiles “Santos de palo”; otros, menos afortunados, reciben a tiempo un merecido. Si el lugar geográfico donde los personajes que encarnan estas dos opciones de ayuda al prójimo es un pueblo a orillas del Océano Pacífico donde viven y conviven con sus protegidos o sus sometidos, un rincón perdido en las selvas tropicales de Suramérica, empobrecido y abusado, la selva no tiene en cuenta detalles de nacionalidad a la hora de castigar a su manera una santidad falsificada. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch
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Science fictionPsique El eco de la oscuridad
by Iván R. Sánchez
Hunted, exhausted, and pushed to the limit of her sanity, Grace faces the weight of her decisions when she receives news that stumps her. She is captured, her allies scatter, and Jack, who had no memory of her, discovers the secrets of the Shadow of the Spirit, his Schattengeist, and embarks on a mission to rescue her. We will know the story of Daniel, a man without a past persecuted by something dark. He will leave a legacy that will unite different moments in history and provide the pieces to understand the complex scenario woven in the history of Grace and her father. Experiments, secret societies, superior abilities and a project from the upper echelons of power that will affect the course of humanity will be revealed through the writings of Nazi scientists, fundamental to the destinies of all the protagonists of this story. In the echo of the darkness the paths of the Psyche intersect, from the corridors of old abandoned hospitals, nightmarish orphanages, calm seas; to epic confrontations in places that harbor terrible conspiracies across the continent.
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Literature: history & criticismFebruary 2023Comerse a Venezuela, en 14 platos nacionales
by Ramón David León / Daniel León / Julio León
"Comerse a Venezuela, en 14 platos nacionales", es una selección de 14 biografías culinarias incluidas en la obra original: "Geografía Gastronómica Venezolana", publicada en 1954. La nueva edición: "Geografía de Venezuela: Una experiencia culinaria - Siglo XXI- Limitada Edition", desde su publicación en marzo de 2019, ha sido distinguida en siete categorías por los Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, durante los años 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, y 2023.
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November 2007Herencia de milagros
by Mario Salazar Montero
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-2-3 Titel “Herencia de milagros”. Mario Salazar Montero. Novela Un anhelo de descendencia termina por enfrentar dos hombres y sus respectivos territorios geográficos. Para C. Abarca, un mulato suramericano que aterriza en Suiza con el propósito de cumplir su parte como macho reproductor estipulada en un contrato, esa descendencia futura, sus genes trasteando un apellido y una nacionalidad ajenos, contribuirá sin él poderlo impedir a perpetuar la desigualdad que le permitió a otro negociar aventajado su simiente. Para F. Spinelli, descartada por enfermedad su capacidad de reproducirse, el resultado esperado, un ser humano, planeado como un recurso hábil y negociable para salvar su matrimonio, esa misma descendencia representa incluso antes de concretarse una hormiga miserable y aventajada con una tendencia congénita al abuso, un subdesarrollado irresponsable sin redención posible. Para Adela, la futura madre, el anhelo legítimo de tener una descendencia es el detonador de una fantasía que la lleva a revivir su primer amor, C. Abarca, en su país de orígen, a enquistarlo adrede en la mente de su marido enfermo como el único semental permitido, a convencerlo de traerlo a Suiza como una compensación a otro tipo de abuso con ella como víctima. Sin embargo, al momento de horizontalizar el negocio, ella ya no es más la mujer linda y joven, su marido resulta siendo un suizo falsificado y el macho reproductor ya no reproduce. C. Abarca anda atareado sumando milagros y amuletos para dejar tras él una Herencia de milagros. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch
