Thursday / “En el Último Azul” by Carme Riera The historical events on which En el Último Azul is based took place in Mallorca between 1687 and 1691. On March 7, 1687, a group of Majorcan Jewish converts, fearing being arrested by the Inquisition, they decided to embark towards lands of freedom.
Today Thursday at 19:30 p.m. The colloquium on the book of the month of the Library Reading Circle will take place in the library under the direction of Professor Soledad Fox. We encourage you to participate in the reading of the recommended book and the colloquium on the last Thursday of each month, it is
From the Library we want to join those who celebrate this special day within American culture. We recommend our selection of books about this holiday: Thanksgiving Books And we take the opportunity to give you a little information about this North American holiday: The Celebration Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration in North America (except
Wednesday / “Captain Alatriste” by Arturo Pérez Reverte “He was not the most honest nor the most pious man, but he was a brave man”… With these words begins Captain Alatriste, the story of a veteran soldier from the Tercios of Flanders who he survives as a paid swordsman in the Madrid of the XNUMXth century. Their
"The more we know about what students need to be good readers, the more difficult we make it for teachers to teach them to be." Emilio Sanchez. “There are many ways to read; each reader is many readers”. Juan Eduardo Garcia-Huidobro. “Spanish students are more adept at relating the
Tuesday / “The frozen heart” by Almudena Grandes Grandes, Almudena (1960- ) The frozen heart / Almudena Grandes. — 3rd ed. — Barcelona: Tusquets, 2007. — 933 p. ; 21cm — (Wanderings Collection; 625). ISBN 978-84-8310-373-9 PQ 6657.R32 C6 2007 A colossal exercise in historical memory that runs to around a thousand pages, where
Monday: “Sisters” by Josefina Aldecoa Aldecoa, Josefina (1926- ) Sisters / Josefina Aldecoa. — [Madrid]: Alfaguara, [2005]. – 225 p.; 23cm ISBN 978-84-204-7424-3 PQ 6651.L39 H47 2008 Josefina Aldecoa unleashes her most reflective and evocative voice in this story of two sisters who masterfully represent two types
The writer Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1931) has today won the National Prize for Spanish Letters awarded by the Ministry of Culture in recognition of the literary career of a Spanish author. This award, one of the most prestigious of those awarded in Spain, is endowed with 40.000 euros and in its last edition
New bibliographic exhibition in the showcases at the entrance of the library: a selection of outstanding collections of the writer Ana María Matute has been made as a tribute after recently obtaining the 2007 national prize for letters. On the other hand, copies of the collection belonging to the magazine Carmen y Lola.
Through the mediation of the United States embassy, a storytelling workshop (Sorytelling Workshop) was held at the Library on Monday, March 3, with the intervention of two American storytellers (Margaret Read MacDonald and Gerard Fiers) and the participation of twenty-five interested parties. who attended this call.