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Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
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"�Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salv�andose as�i de una existencia vulgar. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dram�aticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de Am�erica Latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza. Un conmovedor testimonio en el cual la autora no pretende denunciar lo ya sabido, sino mediante un exquisito arte...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite;...
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