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English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

Archeologist Isaac Cohen has no idea that he will set in motion possible armagedon-like conditions when he discovers, in a library hidden away in a Tuareg city, a mysterious and omnious fifteenth-century manuscript written by a Jew from the Spanish city of Toledo, who had to flee from there during a horrible three-day religious uprising in 1467 known as "The Magdalena Fires."

Dated 1871, this Spanish masterpiece of political thought and observations is an overwhelming warning cry that stands amazingly true in view of today's Latin American political panorama.

Primera entrega de la trilogía Morirás mañana. Tras los sanguinarios pero también divertidos crímenes que planea su protagonista, se descubre esa instancia a menudo detestable que es la literatura, o más bien el sistema que representa, con sus comentaristas, sus editores, sus agentes, sus autores y, pieza fundamental, sus lectores. «Tengo un número impreciso y ciertamente abultado de enemigos, pero enemigos de verdad son los que uno recuerda cuando le dicen que va a morir pronto y se niega a dejarlos vivos...» El escritor Javier Garcés tiene los días contados. Ahora ya no le...