This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, or the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka "masters of the spear" in the Sudan, and other burials which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, and the authors use these examples partly in order to illustrate the many different ways in which anthropologists have tried to interpret these rites. A new introduction reviews theoretical developments in the anthropological study of death since the book first appeared in 1979.

‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, pairing the claustrophobic intensity of Room and My Year of Rest and Relaxation with the youthful angst of Freshwater. Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother’s Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her child—and her mother’s next move in a shocking power struggle over who will raise the baby. To fill the seemingly endless hours of her imprisonment, she writes to her unborn child, determined that her baby will know the truth, no matter what happens. Karuna’s pregnancy is the result of a heady act of independence, lust, and defiance that happened in a moment of freedom from her overprotective mother. In reaction to her daughter’s recklessness, Karuna’s mother locks her inside their apartment to her to make sure she can’t get into any more trouble. While postpartum confinement is a tradition in many cultures, is Karuna’s an act of love—or emotional abuse? As the birth approaches, Karuna and her mother repeatedly trip the fault lines between love and control. And somehow, despite their battles, Karuna recognizes her mother’s love in even the strangest of behaviors. At times tense and unnerving, One Hundred Days illuminates the pain, confusion, and thrill of growing up and the overwhelming desire of adults to protect the children they

El jorobadito, es una recopilaci�n de nueve cuentes en los que el autor trata tem�ticas como la angustia, la humillaci�n, la marginaci�n la hipocres�a de la burgues�a, el aburrimiento entre otras. Tem�ticas recurrentes igualmente en sus novelas. Los t�tulos de los nueve cuentos: -El jorobadito -Escritor fracasado -Ester Primavera -La luna roja -Peque�os propietarios -Las fieras -Una tarde de domingo -El traje del fantasma -Noche terrible La presente edici�n contiene �nicamente dos de los nueve cuentos: El jorobadito y las fieras.

When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, fly kites from their roof and look down at the crowded city streets below, they feel free, like the kites. Baba loves telling Tai Shan stories while the kites—one red, and one blue—rise, dip, and soar together. Then, a bad time comes. People wearing red armbands shut down the schools, smash store signs, and search houses. Baba is sent away, and Tai Shan goes to live with Granny Wang. Though father and son are far apart, they have a secret way of staying close. Every day they greet each other by flying their kites—one red, and one blue—until Baba can be free again, like the kites. Inspired by the dark time of the Cultural Revolution in China, this is a soaring tale of hope that will resonate with anyone who has ever had to love from a distance.

El jorobadito, es una recopilaci�n de nueve cuentes en los que el autor trata tem�ticas como la angustia, la humillaci�n, la marginaci�n la hipocres�a de la burgues�a, el aburrimiento entre otras. Tem�ticas recurrentes igualmente en sus novelas. Los t�tulos de los nueve cuentos: -El jorobadito -Escritor fracasado -Ester Primavera -La luna roja -Peque�os propietarios -Las fieras -Una tarde de domingo -El traje del fantasma -Noche terrible La presente edici�n contiene �nicamente dos de los nueve cuentos: El jorobadito y las fieras.

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.

Ce recueil de six nouvelles (1935) illustre le génie de l'observation de Zweig, son sens magistral de la psychologie. Zweig voulait "résumer le destin d'un individu dans un minimum d'espace et donner dans une nouvelle la substance d'un livre".

«Sólo quiero hablar contigo, decírtelo todo por primera vez. Tendrías que conocer toda mi vida, que siempre fue la tuya aunque nunca lo supiste. Pero sólo tú conocerás mi secreto, cuando esté muerta y ya no tengas que darme una respuesta; cuando esto que ahora me sacude con escalofríos sea de verdad el final. En el caso de que siguiera viviendo, rompería esta carta y continuaría en silencio, igual que siempre. Si sostienes esta carta en tus manos, sabrás que una muerta te está explicando aquí su vida, una vida que fue siempre la tuya desde la primera hasta la última hora.»

El jorobadito, es una recopilaci�n de nueve cuentes en los que el autor trata tem�ticas como la angustia, la humillaci�n, la marginaci�n la hipocres�a de la burgues�a, el aburrimiento entre otras. Tem�ticas recurrentes igualmente en sus novelas. Los t�tulos de los nueve cuentos: -El jorobadito -Escritor fracasado -Ester Primavera -La luna roja -Peque�os propietarios -Las fieras -Una tarde de domingo -El traje del fantasma -Noche terrible La presente edici�n contiene �nicamente dos de los nueve cuentos: El jorobadito y las fieras.

«Sólo quiero hablar contigo, decírtelo todo por primera vez. Tendrías que conocer toda mi vida, que siempre fue la tuya aunque nunca lo supiste. Pero sólo tú conocerás mi secreto, cuando esté muerta y ya no tengas que darme una respuesta; cuando esto que ahora me sacude con escalofríos sea de verdad el final. En el caso de que siguiera viviendo, rompería esta carta y continuaría en silencio, igual que siempre. Si sostienes esta carta en tus manos, sabrás que una muerta te está explicando aquí su vida, una vida que fue siempre la tuya desde la primera hasta la última hora.»