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"Desde Cualquier Punto de Vista" es una mirada audaz al Santiago de Chile en los anos 2002 al 2004. Con una prosa rapida, un constante cambio de narrador y una irreverencia que no se le conocia en textos anteriores, Biggs aborda los problemas de la vida cotidiana en una historia que pudo ser la suya. El relato central, es el de un ejecutivo exitoso (Carlos Sims) que estando en la cima de su carrera, enfrenta un sorpresivo despido, con todo lo que ello implica: perdida del automovil de la empresa, del chofer y de mil prebendas que creia que serian para...

Ein tragisches Unglück, eine zerbrochene Familie - und Heilung von unerwarteter Seite

Nach ihrer Scheidung zieht Grace zurück auf den elterlichen Bauernhof an der windgepeitschten Küste von Wales. Den harten Alltag bestreitet sie allein, ein Unfall auf See hat ihr vor vielen Jahren den Bruder genommen. Nur ein Ritual am Abend spendet Grace Ruhe und Trost: Wenn sie eine alte Tonaufnahme des Seewetterberichts auflegt, die ihren immer vergesslicher werdenden Vater jedes Mal aufs Neue in dem Glauben einschlafen lässt, das Meer sei ruhig und sein Sohn in Sicherheit. ...

This book contains ten tales that are best described as fairy stories and fables.

Some are tales are fables with a moral or lesson set in the stories. Some of which are woven with a mystical spell. There are mystical beings and magic in the fairy stories and tales to capture and hold the imagination. The tales are for young readers as the target market. And to many readers, the short story format is easy and encouraging. Overall they are popular stories to young and old when told or read, and the feedback has been good.

They are set in the elements of snow, the...

Shards of Ice is about Antarctica, the death of a beloved husband and grief. Written in fragments, Shards of Ice interweaves experiences of the author's trips to Antarctica - the first was soon after her husband died - and stories of the early explorers, in the form of snapshots rather than linear history. There is a section on the Red Desert, central Australia, another spiritual home of the author's, contrasting with the southern white desert. And significant reflection about the four years of her husband's decline, his death and her grief. The growing demographic of...