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TIMELESS BOOKS: Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM “Bimini”, “Cuba” and “the sea”. A trilogy of the sea, where you will know Thomas Hudson and his inner conflicts, where you can relive the atmosphere of old Havana, and you can – finally – get the archipelago “Jardines del Rey”, and you seem to hear something that comes from a distance, from another novel by …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Story of a Seagull and the Cat who taught her to fly, by Luis Sepúlveda

Although this book is offered to students in schools, for nearly twenty years, also adults read its pages, but with the eyes of children. Reading a mother gull named Kengah, in Hamburg, you too will discover the magic of the group life and migration, the dip in the sea (looking herring), the danger of oil slicks, to know a strange …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges

FICTIONS A collection of stories, words coming from a time long gone, but the two sides in which the book is divided (The Garden of Forking Paths, and artifices). By reading, you will discover that we live postponing everything that can be put off, imagining new pages where “think” is to forget differences, to generalize and abstract, between the scent …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Macunaima, by Mário de Andrade

MACUNAIMA In the tale, Macunaíma travels from his home tribe in the jungle to São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Inside this novel, youcan find the special melding of the cultures of Brazil, your way to know language, culture, folklore, and music of the indigenous peoples in Brazil. Tapanhumas, Jiquê and Maanape (but also Piaimã, Ci and Vei), waiting fou …

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TIMELESS BOOKS – One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE The story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the family. You can read about love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the chronicle of life and death. Inside that Latin America family story, there are one special trip, around truth and …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like.” This novel was included by Time magazine list of the 100 best English novels written after 1923. Translated into all the major languages of the world, its theme of alienation and anguish …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

  This epic story, the journey of Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick (a big white whale), has accompanied generations of readers – children and adults – for over a century and a half. Regarded as one of the great American novels, its beginning is truly one of the most recognizable of all Western literature, with its extremely realistic …

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TIMELESS BOOKS, To Kill a Mockingbird: The existential shades of a childhood, in a sleepy Southern town

Compassionate, dramatic, and moving. To Kill A Mockingbird – a novel by Harper Lee – takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The existential shades of this novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town, and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, became both …

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THE TIMELESS BOOKS: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

So begins Pride and Prejudice: it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. That it is what you can read inside a novel by Jane Austen’s, witty comedy of manners – one of the most popular novels of all time – that splendidly civilized sparring …

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THE ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN, THOMAS MANN: The colors of the disease, death and sexuality

The Magic Mountain is a complex portrait of western civilization, during the first decades of the twentieth century. In his narrative, the mix of prose and poetry, makes this novel like a fresco, not of color, but of words, those written in 1924 Thomas Mann. That novel – born since 1912 as a short story – from a brief stay …

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