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Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay
her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big
black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to
look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and -
most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba
and his feline friends honour the promise and give Lucky, the
adopted little seagull, the strength to discover her true nature? A
moving, uplifting and life-enhancing story with a strong
environmental theme, Luis Sepulveda's instant children's classic
has been a worldwide best-seller and is presented here with new
drawings by acclaimed illustrator Satoshi Kitamura.
Rebelde the snail can't stop asking his fellow molluscs awkward
questions, starting with: why are we so slow? When he is finally
banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to
travel the world alone. As he explores in his slow snail-like way,
Rebelde makes new friends and goes on plenty of adventures, gaining
wisdom from every new encounter. But when he finds out his friends
are in danger, he decides to rush home to warn them. Will he get
there in time to save them? Luis Sepulveda's bestselling The Story
of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow is a
wonderful ode to diversity and unity, celebrating the importance of
being slow in a world obsessed with speed.
During the summer, a teenager embarks on a boat to take him away
from South America. Years later, the Chilean, as a young adult
living across the planet, has become a journalist and member of the
Greenpeace movement. He will now return to the distant places of
his youth for a different, more romantic reason.
After navigating through the Patagonian canals, a Palestinian
trader lands in Puerto Eden and sells clothes and objects that he
has brought from his country. He meets with people from other
countries who call him the Turkish and starts telling stories about
ancient Phoenician merchants ... by telling their stories, our dead
never die. Luis Seplveda delivers eleven masterpieces.
An old man lives in a hut in El Idilio, a village on the Nangaritza
River, in the southeast corner of Ecuador. The village is so small,
the dentist comes only twice a year, to pull teeth and bring books
to the old man— love stories, with gliding gondolas and ardent
kisses, the kind that guarantee maximum heartache. This is a story
of the jungle, green hell and Eden; of the Shuar Indians, who know
how to live in harmony with it; of the machines and settlers and
gold prospectors and gringos who have invaded it. Nature, out of
balance, becomes vengeful and violent. An ocelot stalks the
village, and only the old man, who once lived with the Indians and
knows the jungle, is able to face the animal. An enchanting
adventure of personal honor in the magical, savage world of
Amazonia.
Luis Sepulveda has a passion: traveling. Wandering the world,
watching people and hearing stories. But Sepulveda has another
passion, that in symbiosis with the previous one, which is to tell
by himself, in his own way, those listened stories and others that,
thanks to his boundless capacity for fabling, enrich the reality to
transform it into literature.
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