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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill—until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk. The lovely...

El nacimiento de su hijo permite a la joven Luz iluminar una región oscura de su memoria. Fue tan sólo una fugaz intuición, pero desde ese instante la duda sobre su verdadero origen pasó a convertirse en una obsesión: ¿era ella, como había creído durante veinte años, hija y nieta de adictos a la dictadura argentina o, por el contrario, era la hija, nacida en cautiverio, de dos desaparecidos? Como si de repente cayese la venda que le tapaba los ojos, su pasado entero cobra un nuevo sentido. Luz despierta de su letargo y se arroja a una búsqueda tenaz y obsesiva de la verdad, que va...

Fabian, a young man from a good family decides to assume an attitude of power that is common to the members of a small male chauvinistic society, in the middle of a racially mixed country. Privileged with money and power, he does not make concessions to life and decides to either take it all in or to succumb to it. His compulsive lewdness and madness, a hereditary disease common in isolated towns of some South American countries, is the theme that links this story.

A Tom Sullivan y Paul Harris les falta poco para resolver el misterio tras la Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, novela escrita por un príncipe renacentista que ha fascinado a los académicos durante siglos. Cuando parece que la investigación se encalla, estos dos