After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
Enrique de Hériz Books
January 1, 1964 – March 14, 2019
Enrique de Hériz is a master storyteller, drawing from his extensive experience as a lecturer, translator, and publisher. His novels are lauded for their captivating ability to draw readers in, regardless of the themes explored. He excels at crafting compelling narratives that resonate with audiences and have earned him recognition within the literary world.
What does it really mean to be dead? This is the question that vexes Isobel because as far as the outside world is concerned she is dead. The book springs from a case of mistaken identity. Isobel, mother of three adult children and an anthropologist has officially been pronounced dead following a boat accident in a remote part of the Guatemalan jungle. But Isobel is very much alive and is hiding in a remote shack in the jungle. She isn't ready to tell the world she's still alive and she's not sure whether she ever will. The news of her own death is especially ironic because as an anthropologist, she studies death rituals. Serena, Isobel's daughter, studies weather. Her father has some form of Alzheimer's and with her mother now supposedly dead, she is trying to write the family history before it is lost. Above all, she is obsessed with the story of Simon, her father's father who was in a shipwreck and survived three days at sea before being rescued. The story of his life has become a family legend together with the tales her father told about The Battle of Formigues and the story of Li Po. Ever since she was a child, Serena has been tantalised by these stories, always asking questions, turning the 'facts' over in her mind, always trying to piece the 'truth' together. Yet the irony is that she isn't investigating the one story she really should
African Stories
- 672 pages
- 24 hours of reading
This is Doris Lessing s Africa where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.
Eragon
- 517 pages
- 19 hours of reading
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Die spanische Anthropologin Isabel wurde für tot erklärt. Während sie auf Forschungsreise im Dschungel Guatemalas noch zögert, den Irrtum aufzuklären, schreibt sich zu Hause Tochter Serena ihre Trauer von der Seele. Dabei räumt sie mit einer undurchsichtigen Familiengeschichte auf, der sie schon immer misstraut hat. Von der quietschlebendigen Isabel erfährt man allerdings eine ganz andere Version ? Ausgezeichnet mit dem wichtigsten Buchhändlerpreis 'Premio Llibreter'.
