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Una intriga policial que excede el género negro para dar paso a una verdadera novela de aprendizaje.

Su único hijo es la segunda novela de Leopoldo Alas, Clarín. De corte costumbrista, trata el tema de la paternidad como redención del ser humano. Leopoldo Alas, también conocido como «Clarín», es un escritor español nacido en Zamora en 1852 y fallecido en Oviedo en 1901. Articulista, novelista, crítico literario y profesor en las universidades de Zaragoza y de Oviedo, se le considera una de las plumas más afiladas de las letras españolas, entre otras obras por su monumental novela La Regenta.

In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches its protagonist into a world of seductive loveliness and nightmarish intrigue. And as he follows Drake's journey, Mason dazzles readers with his erudition, moves them with his vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in the...

The fourteenth-century Spanish classic in which Juan Manuel sets out to solve some of the most important problems facing man, and illustrates his solutions by a series of short stories which have delighted readers for centuries and have inspired major Hispanic writers ever since, is beautifully adapted for young readers.