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From the sprawling farmlands of the Midwest to an epicenter of metropolitan life, Gary Cruise does his best to adjust and forget the sorrow of the past. Yet, he is haunted by a reoccurring dream that ends in failure time after time. Today, of all days, his life may be affected, but does he believe in dreams? Can a small change in life matter all that much? Is this just his grief pursuing him or is he in a race against death, the death of one person he loved more than anyone?

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live. Ranging over the American continent...

Un grupo de mujeres que se resiste a la sordidez del paso del tiempo; dos amigas de vacaciones en un paisaje imponente, donde acecha la oscuridad y el pasado como un animal feroz; dos hermanas que retrasan desprenderse de las cenizas de su madre en el mar; una pareja que vive en la tensión del conflicto permanente. Con la mirada y el oído atentos a lo terrible, pero también a lo bello, los cuentos de Magalí Etchebarne, plenos en maestría, inteligencia y humor, se internan en la vida de unos personajes en constante batalla con el dolor.

I nomi fanno il mondo' è un'opera concepita per l'ascolto in audiolibro. Piccoli romanzi in venti righe, o poco più...

Il racconto è un viaggio attraverso gli anni antichi, I Guerra mondiale, II Guerra, i partigiani, i migranti, un viaggio dell'esistenza sempre attuale con la famiglia, dolce amaro come la vita.