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Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Craig Thompson - the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-Bye, Chunky Rice - spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.
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Cobrar por estar de pie by Gauz ES
Country: Africa / 
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast
Description:
Esta novela de Gauz nos trae la historia de Ossiri, un estudiante marfileño empleado como vigilante después de haber aterrizado (sin papeles) en el París de los 90.
Es un canto al honor de una familia, de una madre y de la comunidad africana de París, con sus imperfecciones, sus sufrimientos y sus diferencias.
Es la historia política de un migrante, su mirada sobre Francia hasta el 11S.
Es, en el fondo, una colección de las cosas vistas y oídas por el autor cuando trabajaba como vigilante en París. Una sátira de fibra social y m... continue
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Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac EN
Description:
Unlock the more straightforward side of Colonel Chabert with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, which follows the titular character’s struggle to adapt to life in France after he was for years presumed dead. Chabert, a former war hero and a man of integrity, finds that there is no place for him in France’s new society, which is ruled by greed, selfishness and injustice, and is callously manipulated by his conniving ex-wife. The novel is one of the Scenes of Private Life in Balzac’s The Human Comed... continue
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Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca Suárez EN
Country: North America / 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Description:
“Beware, reader, in these pages you will experience vertigo, anxiety and joy. You will become a ghostly presence in a Borgesian world, a camera obscura, where mathematics is a secret weapon, and memory the object of an archaeological pursuit. Loosely inspired by the eventful life of the French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, Fonseca has created a gorgeous opera prima.” —Valerie Miles, The New York Times Book Review Holed away in a cabin in the Pyrenees, the world-famous and enigmatic mathematician Alexander Grothendieck is working furiously on a final project. But what exactly is this mo... continue
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Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand EN
Description:
Une édition de référence de Cyrano de Bergerac d’Edmond Rostand, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. DE GUICHE. Personne ne va donc lui répondre ?... LE VICOMTE Personne ? Attendez ! Je vais lui lancer un de ces traits !... Il s'avance vers Cyrano qui l'observe, et se campant devant lui d'un air fat. Vous... vous avez un nez... heu... un nez... très grand. CYRANO, gravement Très. LE VICOMTE, riant Ha ! CYRANO, imperturbable C'est tout ?... LE VICOMTE Mais... CYRANO Ah ! non ! c'est un peu court, jeune homme ! On pouvait dire... Oh ! Dieu !... bien des choses en som... continue