What is the true value of a soldier's foot that saved the life of a higher-ranking officer? How does a person who has made laughter his profession actually laugh? How do brief yes or no answers summarize a man's happiness? What memories will a few paintings hanging in a school turned into a military hospital evoke for an injured student returning from war? Is it better to live to work, or to work to live?
These and other questions will be addressed by the German writer Heinrich Boll in this book. Reflecting in his sometimes funny, sometimes angry, and sensitive style every other time, his mockery of the conditions that followed the war, which forced people to resume their lives as if nothing had happened, and his mockery of the capitalist tendency that demands everyone to work to the best of their ability for the sake of “the future”... valuing contemplation. Slowly, Heinrich Bull writes in these stories his response to a hasty world, possessed by madness, and lacking its humanity.
I chose her and her forty likenesses were jealous: The book “I Choose Her, So Her Forty Likes Are Jealous” contains some of the thoughts that come between lovers and are not limited to the topics of love that brings them together alone. Rather, more than that, some of the thoughts that come to them about what is going on, happening, and conversations going on around them.. The book contains a lot of words and ideas that may have occurred to you, crossed your mind, or dreamed about one day.
لغات الحب الخمس: كيف تعبر عن حبك العميق لشريك حياتك هو كتاب صادر في عام 1992 لكاتبه غاري تشابمان. يحدد فيه خمس طرق للتعبير عن الحب وتجربته بين الشركاء العاطفيين والتي يدعوها تشابمان «لغات الحب
Aguilar realizes that something irreparable has happened to his wife as soon as he enters the hotel room where she is staying. He tries to discover the identity of the man who was with her, and to find out what specifically happened that put her in this strange state, but he discovers how little he knows about the deep turmoil hidden in the past of this woman, who found that her only weapon was to build her own world and withdraw behind the thick walls of madness.
Through a revolving narrative, Colombian writer Laura Restrepo enters the minds of four characters, trying to reveal their contradictions, their stormy lives, their turmoil, and their intimate details, charmingly intertwining violence, crime, love, and loyalty.
“Delirium,” which won the Alphaguara Prize in 2004, is a novel that, through the succession of voices it narrates, will immerse you in vortexes of delirium, too.
