La puerta del Círculo Polar ártico

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

Este libro da inicio a la explicación de cómo el mundo ya no está al revés (título de otra obra del mismo autor). Es cuestión de tiempo, pero el tiempo es solamente una ilusión para las mentes atrapadas y que funcionan en tres dimensiones. Por fortuna, el cerebro es un maravilloso mecanismo con un diseño perfecto que nos permitirá integrarnos a una realidad más atractiva, de manera colectiva y eterna.

El itinerario de Olivia Daley era algo insólito, pero ella estaba convencida de que cambiar de aires era el mejor remedio para un corazón roto. China, con sus exóticos paisajes y sus ciudades llenas de vida, le pareció el destino ideal para olvidarse de la gris y lluviosa Inglaterra.Olivia comenzó su andadura en el bullicioso Pekín, donde pronto se vio cautivada por antiguas leyendas de amor y por Lang Mitchell, un atractivo médico inglés de ascendencia china.