Gracias a Mi Hijo

Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10—Francois de Borbón-Vendôme, the prince of Martigues—finds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her savior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame...

La impactante historia de una familia en crisis ganadora del Premio Booker 2021. Los Swart son una familia blanca que vive desde hace generaciones en una granja en las afueras de Pretoria, en Sudáfrica. Tras la muerte de la madre, se reúnen todos para el funeral en la casa familiar. Amor y Anton, dos de sus hijos, rechazan lo que la familia representa y no olvidan la promesa que su padre hizo a su madre poco antes de morir: que Salome, la mujer negra que lleva trabajando toda la vida para ellos y que la cuidó en sus últimos días, podría quedarse con la pequeña casa en la que siempre ha ...

Facing destitution after decades of Hollywood fame, silver screen legend Cooper Winslow finds unexpected friends in tenants Mark Friedman and Jimmy O'Connor after Mark's teenage children bring chaos and renewed life to Cooper's carefully ordered estate

This story includes eleven short stories from one of the most heartbreaking French storytellers today. In one story, two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate...