Cronómetros para el fin de los tiempos - Planeta Lector

The book that inspired the Academy-award winning film offers a remarkable portrait of Ramn Sampedro, left a quadriplegic following a diving accident, who battled for twenty-six years for his right to die with dignity.

The only female freelancer in the male-dominated field, pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton will take any work she can find to pay child support and her mortgage, get her new business off the ground, and battle her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).

En el sagrado desierto de Raraku, Sha’ik la vidente y sus seguidores se preparan para el levantamiento profetizado largo tiempo atrás, «el Torbellino». Esclavizada en las minas de otataral, Felisin, la más joven de la deshonrada Casa de Paran, sueña con la libertad y jura vengarse, mientras que los Abrasapuentes proscritos Violín y Kalam conspiran para liberar al mundo de la emperatriz Laseen (aunque la voluntad de los dioses, como siempre, parece ser otra). Y, al tiempo que dos antiguos guerreros cargados con un secreto devastador penetran esta tierra asolada, un comandante del...