La ruta del afecto

Balaguer, 1938. The Civil War rages furiously across the Segre, but Xavier feels safe and each day he takes his bicycle out to explore the town and its surroundings. In one of his trips he meets Matthew, a sixteen-year-old boy who is the son of an anarchist and is about to join the front. When Xavier, son of an engineer under the order of Franco, discovers the secret weapon that helped his father prepare to wipe out the Republican side, it will pose the most critical dilemma of his life.

Esta brillante novela de Cristian Acevedo cuya trama de western se despliega no en el Far West yanqui sino en una esquina marginal del conurbano bonaerense, fue finalista del Premio Clarín de Novela 2018. "La Ley primera. Western vol.1 -declara Nicolás Correa en el prólogo- (...) no es solo inolvidable por su argumento, también lo es por sus vívidos y humanos protagonistas. (...) Acevedo es astuto y revive un género mítico y arcaico ya: el western. Y lo instala en una villa, en el margen, y no solo lo instala en el margen, sino que se sirve de la vasta tradición nacional: el duelo"....

The team at King's Row must face the school that defeated them in the fencing state championships last year, but first Nicholas and Seiji must learn to work together as a team...and maybe something more!... Just as Nicholas, Seiji and the fencing team at the prodigious Kings Row private school seem to be coming together, a deadly rival from their past stands in their way once more. MacRobertson is the school that knocked Kings Row out of the State Championships last year - but unless Nicholas and Seiji can learn to work together as a team, their school is doomed once again! And maybe those...

Dafne y Damián llevan toda su vida inmersos en una guerra de bromas. Los gritos e insultos se han convertido en algo habitual entre ellos, pero, ¿qué pasa cuando uno de los dos decide llegar más allá y traspasar la línea que todo enemigo no debe atravesar? Dicen que del odio al amor hay solo un paso, pero, ¿realmente es cierto?