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Enfrentarnos a nuestros muertos nunca es cosa sencilla. Enrique González Parra se da a la tarea de desempolvar los recuerdos, sacar al sol los miedos archivados y llenar los antiguos silencios con poesía. El resultado es un libro a la vez crudo y sensible, con una voz poética directa y transparente, donde desfilan fantasmas de amigos y desconocidos, cuyas muertes anuncian también la inevitable del autor. Tal vez gracias a su oficio de historiador, González Parra sabe que el pasado no es algo unívoco, homogéneo o fácil de interpretar. Los sentimientos humanos son contradictorios y el...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Has dejado un silencio en este espacio en el que a veces me escucho a mí misma. Un hueco frío en esta cama gigante y el baño un poco más yo. Te suelo llenar los domingos de Latina, de cervezas, de noches en vela, de Cuarto Milenio. Has dejado un silencio en esta casa que me gusta disfrutar con otros... en tu lado del sofá.

Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naif, plunges her paper ship, the Nautilus, into deepest, blackest space, crossing into the fraught domains of other planets and other minds, beaming requests for information to Ada Byron (a clone and psychic information scientist), and dreaming of the renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt (who exists as data). Stella's mission: to attempt to think and to write without being disturbed, derailed or killed.