La llave

Lois, a young girl, is anxious to meet her lover but makes an unexpected stop at her brother Keith's house, who is studying to become a Catholic priest. After not seeing him for many years, the encounter opens Lois’ mind to things that she has not thought about before. When she tells Keith she isn't a devout Catholic anymore, Lois participates in a benediction in the chapel given by her brother. She experiences emotions she hasn't felt before and collapses into his arms. With themes of sibling relationships, family, and Catholicism, 'Benediction' offers insight into theology, inner life,...

"A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race ...

Existen muchos caminos posibles desde la ilusion infantil hasta llegar a graduarse en Medicina. Con humor e imaginacion, la autora nos relata sus anos de estudiante. Una avalancha de acontecimientos "fuera de las tapas de los libros" le significo una dura batalla para mantener a raya las emociones. Fue descubriendo que para ejercer la profesion de medico se requeria mucho mas que el gusto por el estudio. La vida la fue llevando hacia su verdadera vocacion: la docencia y la literatura.

Con gracia paradójica, la novela de Muriel Spark afina y condensa la diferencia entre géneros tan disímiles como el thriller y los manuales de autoayuda y se anticipa además a las previsiones en temas relacionados con el placer de la lectura. Satisface todas las expectativas porque contiene las claves para vencer el insomnio, para adelgazar, para tener fuerza de voluntad, para concentrarse y escribir una novela y para tratar con maridos. El éxito queda garantizado.