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    • Literature & Literary Studies
      June 2020

      Solo

      by Marcelo Vera

      La muerte de Clara produce un efecto devastador en su pareja, quien además de abandonar su trabajo decide encerrarse para atesorar cada recuerdo y detener así el irremediable avance del tiempo. Esta novela sobre la pérdida narra el relato íntimo de un hombre que busca sentido mientras atraviesa un duelo frenético y delirante.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2020

      En tus manos

      Acompañar en la enfermedad y preparar una buena muerte

      by Jose Mª Avendaño

      Lo grande, lo importante, se esconde en lo pequeño, en la simplicidad, en el abandono. Así lo repite el autor, de una u otra manera, en su canto, porque este libro es un canto.Estas páginas nos hacen descubrir, en la memoria filial y creyente, la belleza de la creación y de la salvación encarnada en un pueblo de La Mancha, en la vida de un hombre sencillo, bueno, un campesino honrado y creyente sincero, en el escenario de una familia rural y piadosa.Unas memorias cristianas llenas de agradecimiento, de profundidad, de sentido. La historia que cuenta este libro no es fantasía, no es ficción, sino una historia real, la historia de Cándido.Nos encontramos con temas fundamentales de nuestra existencia: la vida, la familia, el sufrimiento, la muerte, el duelo, la orfandad, el acompañamiento de los que sufren, etc.El mejor camino para la aceptación del sufrimiento y de la muerte, para superar el duelo, es asumirlo, hacerlo parte de nuestra vida, comulgar con él con la certeza de que hemos vencido en el Aquel que murió y resucitó por nosotros.

    • November 2019

      My Grampas Garden

      by Valerie Padilla

      Album book that portrays the value of ties, created from a daily experience, and what they leave in each person. Talks about family relationships, deals with the issue of bereavement. Libro album que habla acerca de la importancia de la creacion de relaciones humanas. temáticas, Vìnculo, duelo,

    • CARTA PRAT 2

      by PABLO MONREAL

      El hacker más inteligente del colegio resulta ser el corrupto presidente de centro de estudiantes del colegio Prat. Él, versus el detective-cartero, Emilio tendrán un duelo de cartas donde se juegan la vida y la oportunidad de volver a tener una cotidianidad normal. los colegios de mujeres, n°2 y n°5, llegan al colegio Prat. Tendrán que juntar fuerzas para encontrar al psicopata que va detrás del niño cartero. Kuritsa, el hacker de la estrella roja, entra en acción.

    • Literature & Literary Studies

      Nostalgia de la madre muerta

      by Federico Zurita Hecht

      El recuerdo, el olvido y el dolor son el mapa que trama la historia de cuatro generaciones de hombres que han perdido a su madre. Cada uno, desde sus distintos tiempos y oficios, añoran rescatar y representar la idea de su madre en su memoria y están impulsados a recuperarla como una parte desgarrada de su propia identidad. En esta novela un hijo puede ser un padre, un abuelo o un bisnieto porque la experiencia que los une, bañados de nostalgia, es común a toda la humanidad.

    • Entre ángeles y moscas

      by Flor Bosco

      Imaginería perpetua la idea del tiempo y sus palabras. Búsqueda entre los recovecos e intersticios del pasado: celosías agrietadas y hierbajos. Secuencia volátil, rabiosa, la del insecto. ¿De qué nos hablan estos poemas de Flor Bosco? Nos hablan del dios de la infancia, anomalías, gracia mística. Poemas que murmuran, sisean, ríen casi en silencio. Hablan de duelo, telas antiguas, canarios, olor a naftalina, cirio, taconcitos, pavorreales, ternura envuelta en andrajos y devota tristeza. Entre Ángeles y Moscas permanece la idea del asombro como guiño, como evidencia, universo propio: el cotidiano de la poeta. Sabemos que todo es parte de todo. Sabemos que la poesía es un texto que se teje con algunos hilos de otros textos. Sabemos que hablamos el lenguaje absoluto del balbuceo. Así que Flor Bosco también teje, también trama. Las raras criaturas, los poemas, también comen. ¿Su alimento? El Tiempo.

    • April 2019

      Wrting Grief

      by Victoria-Eufenia Díaz-FacioLince

      The death of loved ones causes a deep pain associated with the rupture of a bond, and brings the bereaved face to face with a process of mourning. When the loss occurs suddenly or violently, or when it fractures the supposed laws of life, the mourning process has to also tackle the effects of disruption. In response to death, men of all ages have appealed to strategies of various kinds, including symbolic practices such as rituals and writing, with which they attempt to organize the experience of mourning and rebuild their fractured life. “La escritura de duelo” studies a specific way of writing about death, the memories of mourning, and investigates in them two basic issues: the role of writing in processes of mourning, and the meanings about the experience of loss that unfold in some of these autobiographical stories. He argues that these are narratives in which writers simultaneously address the works of memory and mourning when they bring the memory of a loved one to the present and reconfigure its image; when they review the history of the bond and construct meaning in the face of loss. Writing thus helps to reorder their fractured existence, to transform the bond with their deceased beloved and to consolidate their remembrance in the realm of memory.

    • Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
      2019

      Fiesta!

      Learn How People Celebrate in America

      by Ángeles Quinteros, Ángeles Vargas

      This book wants to celebrate the cultural richness that comes from the native people and from different migration processes that vitalize our whole continent. Along with an attractive design, based on illustrations and images, the objective is to encourage children to have a positive attitude towards reading a text of greater difficulty, and thus contribute to a comprehensive education, developing reading skills and the cultural heritage of little readers. At the same time you will discover shared experiences that unite us as one great nation—like slavery or the cycles of Mother Earth—which are remembered and celebrated in ways you would never have imagined. Find out and celebrate the most interesting and beautiful festivals in America, a continent full of colors!

    • Fiction
      June 2020

      Drawings of Hiroshima

      by Marcelo Simonetti

      “The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.

    • July 2019

      Desplazamientos-Beatriz González

      by Francisco Javier Gil, Elkin Rubiano, María Alejandra Fajardo.

      La presente exposición y los textos que la acompañan proceden de un proyecto de investigación-creación desarrollado por Mariana Dicker, María Alejandra Fajardo, Elkin Rubiano y Javier Gil. Esta exploración pretende pensar las relaciones entre creación artística y memoria a partir de la producción artística de Beatriz González de los últimos 20 años. Consideramos que las imágenes toman posición frente a lo real; no representan lo dado o lo sucedido, sino que lo crean y dimensionan desde sus particulares modos de pensar. Tampoco aspiran a explicaciones totalizantes; significan a través de momentos, fragmentos, detalles y relaciones inéditas. Lo visual toca lo real sin aspirar a verdades absolutas y cerradas, pero desde sus singularidades expresivas renueva la percepción y la comprensión del mundo. En ese contexto, consideramos que el trabajo de Beatriz González construye memoria, asumiendo que esta no se refiere a dar cuenta de hechos objetivos ocurridos en el pasado, sino como una construcción simbólica, un trabajo, una nueva dimensión de sentido vinculada a la creación artística. Sus obras confirman las posibilidades que tienen el arte de participar en la generación de otras historias, de hacer hablar el pasado de otro modo, de expresar lo inexpresado por la historia oficial.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      April 2021

      Sueños de la Euro

      El torneo que reconcilió a un continente

      by Miguel L. Pereira

      As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      June 2021

      Prórroga

      by Antonio Agredano

      “In a world of winners, defeat is a kind of dissidence. Losing is not a romantic exercise, it hurts like a stepfather, but you learn. All victories are alike, but each defeat is similar in its own way; There are many ways to cry, but everyone drinks champagne the same way. This is not a football book. Not only. Because in football there is room for a life”. Julián Bellón, at the age of 40, returns to Córdoba due to the death of his father. That loss will drag him to his childhood, to his neighborhood, to the bars and to the people who saw him grow up, the last place of armored happiness before his life twisted and fell into a spiral of self-destruction. The boy who became a goalkeeper still dreaming of scoring a goal, the young man who later became a professional goalkeeper, today is a broken man cornered by memories of him. Is there time for redemption before the final whistle?

    • Health & Personal Development
      2020

      Early emotional education

      by Gloria Latorre

      The family is the first modeler of interpersonal relationships. In it all the richness of the emotional world unfolds. That is why it is key to teach our children from birth to build their own path to inner well-being, through self-knowledge and the skills to manage their emotions. This will help them from the beginning of their lives to connect with the other from empathy and compassion. “This book offers us a journey to recognize the emotions in our relationships. On each page, it offers us pauses to reflect, realize and experiment, allowing true learning. It is a companion for travelers such as parents, teachers, psychologists and for all of us who work in accompaniment ”. Jorge Genzone, President of the Gestalt Association of Buenos Aires

    • 2017

      De synthèse / The Imago State

      by Karoline Georges

      A story of luminous lucidity, the kind that can free the consciousness and thrill the soul, De synthèse shines a light on the end of a filial relationship. It is told from the point of view of an image-obsessed woman reunited with her family just as her mother enters a terminal phase following a long period of suffering. It’s a story about the body, about disappearance, about reflections, about composition and decomposition. Winner of several literary awards. To learn more about this title, click here: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/de-synthese/

    • October 2013

      El silencio de los pájaros

      by Horacio Cavallo / Gonzalo Delgado

      Para salvar su vida, un hombre decide salvar la de los demás.Una solitaria mujer recibe las esperanzadoras cartas de un admirador secreto.Padre e hijo viajan al pasado con una caja de cenizas en las manos.Un músico ciego recorre a tientas un pequeño pueblo del interior.Un poeta ignoto le entrega el más valioso regalo al hombre que lo iluminó con sus palabras.Un grupo de niños planean un mágico rescate.Un abuelo, su nieto y un perro ven lo que el río devuelve a los hombres, mientras los pájaros callan. En los siete cuentos de este libro, Horacio Cavallo construye un mundo de particular sensibilidad gracias a la calidad sugestiva de su prosa. Las vidas de los personajes que habitan ese mundo son antiguas, vidas que han llegado a un punto en el que un solo gesto de bondad, de sencilla ternura, puede devolverles una parte de su fuerza original. Mucho tiempo después de que el lector haya abandonado estas páginas, esos personajes continuarán en su memoria, buscando nuevas oportunidades de redención, y, quizá, encontrándolas. Un nuevo relato se añade a los siete que conformaban la primera edición de este volumen. Se trata de «El sabor de la nieve», originalmente publicado en el libro colectivo Exposición múltiple (Alter Ediciones, 2015), un texto que, además de ser una prodigiosa muestra de técnica narrativa, alcanza una gran hondura emotiva y se ubica entre las mejores piezas breves del autor. El nuevo conjunto amplía así los márgenes de su universo simbólico y ofrece nuevas posibilidades de diálogos cruzados. Cabe señalar que luego de obtener el Premio Nacional de Narrativa Édita del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura en 2015, varios de los relatos de este libro han formado parte de antologías en diversas lenguas.

    • Health & Personal Development

      Relaciones

      Liderazgo en acción

      by Gonzalo Gallo González

      Relations. How is your relationship with the people around you? Are you one of those who change your way of being with certain people? This volume will show you the variables that exist in relationships and in communication between human beings, it will teach you to be more understanding, sensitive and respectful with others. Among other things, it also highlights the importance of knowing how to listen.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      October 2019

      Indomable

      Cuadernos del fútbol africano

      by Alberto Edjogo-Owono

      This book talks about Africa and its football, trying to illuminate the overflowing, fierce and profound story of a continent that has been overshadowed too many times. The ball is a reflection of the impulses that run through it, and traces a path through which to approach its people, their stories and their desires. Politics, war or religion are intertwined with leather in every city, in every stadium and on every page. Alberto Edjogo-Owono, international with Equatorial Guinea, makes his debut in the literary world trying to discover where this indomitable land gets the strength to rise up after everything was taken from it.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      November 2020

      Kafka en Maracaná

      90 partidos. 90 autores. 90 relatos

      by David García Cames, Miguel Ángel Ortiz and Marcel Beltran

      Football breaks down all doors, including those of literature. Contrary to popular belief, there are many writers who at some point were attracted by the mystery of the goal or the fervor of the stands. The ball sneaks into the work and life of authors who have built bridges between these two apparently dissociated worlds. From Marguerite Duras to Eduardo Galeano, passing through Albert Camus, Roberto Bolaño, Svetlana Aleksiévich or Federico García Lorca. This book is 90 games that were played one day. This book is made up of 90 stories, halfway between the chronicle and the tale, with which tribute is paid to 90 extraordinary creators who have influenced our way of understanding football.

    • Fiction

      HISTORICAL

      by Selection and editing by Marta Mearin and Juan Francisco Bascuñán Illustrations: Joanna Styrylska-Gałażyn

      Historical is a journey through the lives of 15 women who made history, based on illustrations of them by Polish artist Joanna Styrylska-Gałażyn. These graphic representations are accompanied by texts of diverse literary genres, written especially for this edition by young writers of different nationalities: Chilean, Latin American, Catalan. For each character, a brief biography and a text is included that seeks to connect the reader to the woman being honored, mixing real information with fictitious events: some occur in the future, others explore the most intimate dimension of the protagonist or personify her through poetry. The illustrations and stories that make up this book seek to make visible the importance of women in the immense number of areas from which they have been systematically excluded: science, art, technology, sports, activism and academia, among others. In this way, the book concentrates different aspects of feminist struggles capable of transcending time and space.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences

      The Gospel of Prosperity

      Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick

      by Luis Miguel Estrada

      In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.

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