The Weight Of The Stars
- 348 pages
- 13 hours of reading
From the Spanish Civil War to the present day--the story of an exceptional life.
Agustin Comotto Books
This Argentine author enjoys writing and also illustrating his books, in which he often experiments with various materials like chalk, acrylic, wax, or charcoal. He describes his early passion for illustration, saying: “Sometimes I think that instead of learning to write, as a child, I learned to draw letters. I’m never clear whether ideas come to me as a drawing or a word. At this point, I honestly don’t care.” His distinctive approach blends visual and textual elements, blurring the lines between writing and drawing.
The Hairdresser’s Son
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Multi-award winning Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker's phenomenal new novel about grief and the unavoidable power of family ties. Simon never knew his father, Cornelis. When his wife told him she was pregnant, Cornelis packed his bags, and a day later he was dead. Or everyone assumed he was dead; after all, he was on the passenger list of the KLM plane that crashed in Tenerife in 1977. Simon is a hairdresser, just like his father and grandfather before him, but he is not passionate about cutting and shaving. 'Closed' appears on his shop's front door more often than 'open', because every customer is a person, and people suck the energy from him. But there is one client he regularly interacts with: the writer. The writer is looking for a subject for his next book, and becomes captivated by the story of Simon's father. As Simon probes the mystery of what happened to his father, a deeply humane and beautifully observed portrait of loneliness emerges in another captivating novel from one of Europe's greatest storytellers.
En este maravilloso libro podrás leer los cuentos de El cachorro humano ; El rey de los monos ; El maestro de los lobos ; La Flor Roja ; El tesoro del rey ; El destino de Mowgli.