The skin around the assistant director's eyes stretches.
That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right...
Silence is the fruit of occupation.
Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. Can we see it? No. Not even open the first door? No. Have you seen it? I have not. So how do you know it’s really there? You have...
Se pelo menos a vida fosse como um romance de Júlio Verne... e você pudesse passar as páginas para a frente, quando precisasse, para descobrir o que estava para acontecer.
Open your eyes, concluded the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever
One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. The appetite for oxygen is such that objec...
Marie-Laure sits among them, wondering who will cave, who will tattle, who will be the bravest. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.
Las piedras no son más que piedras, la lluvia no es más que lluvia y la desgracia es solo mala suerte. Por
It is the obliviousness of our children that saves us.
It becomes known as the time of the ostriches. Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they? Maybe everybody does, she murmurs. Madame
I think, Werner says, feeling as though some cupboard in the sky has just opened, we just found a radio.
His mother the Ice Queen. The only thing he still had of hers was a book: Snow Crystals, by W. A. Bentley. Inside were thousands of carefully prepared micrographs of snowflakes, each image reproduced...
Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. Frederick hardly every thinks of himself. Frederick is stronger than he is in every imag...
Extirpation?
De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita.A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener e...
Will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.
Un complejo de minas de carbón de mil seiscientas hectáreas a las afueras de Essen, Alemania. Es
Thumb. Marie-Laure’s father is principal locksmith for the National Museum of Natural History. Between the laboratories, warehouses, four separate public museums, the menagerie, the greenhouses, the a...
The network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flow...