Dante Liano

En la soñolienta ciudad de Santa Ana, existe una expresión muy curiosa: "hijo de casa". Se llama así al huérfano abandonado en la calle y que una familia adopta, sin trámites legales, para hacer el bien y de paso aprovechar la mano de obra gratuita. El hijo de casa debe ser fiel y agradecido hasta la eternidad. Y lo son todos, menos uno, que decide exterminar a su familia adoptiva. El doctor Alejandro Zamora, médico forense de la ciudad, hombre lúcido y desencantado, llegará a desenredar el misterio con una sorpresiva intuición, revelada en las últimas páginas de la novela. Un grupo de imbéciles que pagan su idiotez con la horca, otro grupo, el de las temibles personas "normales" que se ahogan en la banalidad, un anciano que oculta su falta de inteligencia con una sórdida intransigencia religiosa, un comisario sarcástico y una niña sagaz, un boxeador desafortunado y su novia indefensa, forman el cuadro que rodea al doctor Zamora, en una sólida novela de apasionante lectura.

El hijo de casa

Rigoberta Menchú

The Nobel Peace Prize winner details her Guatemalan childhood, recounting stories of her grandparents and parents, and her close association with the natural world that surrounded her highland village.

The Girl from Chimel

El abogado y la señora

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns once more to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy. Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst all the villagers to inherit the responsibility for tending his special cornfield. Ixkem goes to the field and begins to shout and stomp to frighten away the animals who would like to share the harvest. Suddenly a mass of tiny creatures appear — the b'e'n — secret animal spirits of which there is one for every human on earth. They take Ixkem into the underworld, where she tells them the amazing stories that her grandfather has told her. In exchange the b'e'n whisper a secret for her to take to her grandfather. Rich and vibrant illustrations by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi perfectly complement this magical Maya tale. Key Text Features Illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

The Secret Legacy

The Nobel Peace Prize-winner recounts some of the Maya legends she learned from her grandparents as a child in Guatemala.

The Honey Jar

Lingua e cultura ispanica contemporanea

Lengua y literatura española e hispanoamericana. Los últimos diez años

Lingua e letteratura nei paesi ispanici

Varia Hispanica

In this book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns to the world of her childhood. The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations of how and why certain natural phenomena came to exist, and animal tales. The underworld, the sky, the sun and moon, plants, people, animals, gods and demi-gods are all present in these stories, and through them we come to know more about the elements that shaped the Mayas’ understanding of the world. Rich and vibrant illustrations by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi perfectly complement these magical Maya tales. Key Text Features illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Rigoberta Menchu

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy. This fascinating glimpse into the ancient stories of the Maya is beautifully illustrated by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi.

Dante Liano

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