Cocine Saludablemente (Healthy Cooking)

A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals of gardening and the wonder of Nature. "I found myself translating a story written by someone I hardly knew, about some...

La otra: "—Hija mía, hace muchos días que no te pregunto nada con respecto al inconsolable viudo. —¡Bah! —Se consolará —rio Alice Quimper—. Todos los viudos llegan a consolarse. Sandra es muy bonita. Esta alzándose de hombros —Estoy desistiendo de ello. —Merece la pena insistir, querida —intervino el padre—. Ten en cuenta que sus millones son tan numerosos como sus penas. —Precisamente por eso, papá. No será posible quitarle esa pena del corazón. —No creo que sea diferente de los demás hombres —objetó la madre—. Y a todos les pasa. —La quiso demasiado....

In this sequel to Contra el viento del norte, nearly a year has passed since Emmi and Leo fell madly in love through email when Leo returns to Boston to find news of her. Both recognize their feelings for each other haven’t changed and consider meeting in person for the first time. But Leo has just started a new relationship and Emmi is still married. Leo and Emmi show us all that after the sixth wave breaks against the shore, a seventh wave always comes, this one, full of surprises.

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015 A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses...