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Nico ve como se llevan a su padre, el profesor, delante de toda la clase у recuerda que su mision principal es lograr que vuelva. Su enamorada, Patricia Bettini, lo acompana en su soledad y, con un acto imaginative lleno de humor, abren el camino a la libertad en un pais cercado por la dictadura у el silencio.
Una novela de padres e hijos, maestros у discipulos que se las ingenian para devolver los colo-res у la musica a una capital gris. Con la prosa delicada de Antonio Skarmeta у la voz de Nico, la novela es una bella historia real de ilusion у esperanza en tiempos dificiles.

En Contulmo, una aldea del sur de Chile, la vida del joven Jacques se vera marcada para siempre por la marcha de su padre a su Paris natal. Profesor en la escuela del pueblo, entabla una relacion muy especial con un alumno, Augusto Gutierrez, de 15 anos, quien por su cumpleanos le pide que le acompane a la ciudad vecina, Angol, para perder la virginidad. Jacques visitara antes el prostibulo y, asi, el mismo conoce el sexo por primera vez. En su iniciatico viaje topa de forma casual con su padre, a quien todo el mundo imaginaba viviendo en Paris, quien le relatara que quiso cortar con su anterior vida tras tener un hijo con la hermana de Augusto, de solo 19 anos. La chica, sin embargo, los abandona y regresa a Contulmo. Asi, el padre debera arreglarselas para sobrevivir. La madre de Jacques, ajena a todo, sigue sumida en una depresion y no alcanza a entender el porque de la marcha de su marido. Jacques, que desea darle una madre al bebe de su padre, propiciara un reencuentro del matrimonio.

This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protégé, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the memory of Pinochet's reign and the 'disappearing' of citizens still looms" (Publishers Weekly). With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Ángel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey, whose front-page exploits won him a reputation he would rather leave behind. Their plan for an ambitious and daring robbery is complicated by the galvanizing presence of Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime.


Praised for his "ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), Antonio Skármeta sets this exuberant love story against the backdrop of the new Chile, free from the Pinochet dictatorship but beholden to the perils of globalization. The Dancer and the Thief, which won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize, is a remarkable new novel from one of South America's finest storytellers. Reading group guide included.

The Postman – A Novel

At the end of the 19th century, a successful store owner, Stamos Marikanis, marries Gema's most beautiful woman. But his bride dies in a bizarre accident. Twenty years later, Stamos comes back to life in the form of Jeronimo Frank, who again marries a beautiful girl. Will history repeat itself?

Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things suddenly become much more complicated.

Why, for instance, do Pedro's parents secretly listen to the radio every evening after dinner? And why does the government want Pedro and his classmates to write compositions about what their parents do in the evening?

Humorous, serious and intensely human, this powerful picture book by Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta presents a situation all too familiar to children around the world. And for children it provides food for thought about freedom, moral choices and personal responsibility