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In Florence, Italy, the death of his beloved young bride brings a mechanical genius to build a monument to sorrow, a marvelous garden where it’s hard to tell what is fake and what’s real. One day he invites to this place another lover of his, only to confront him with a hideous truth. An enchanting historical tale about reality, creation and love.
Born with the name Karolina in 1880, Caroline reminisces about her past in Poland by the Warta River, recalling what drove her to America.
In an ancient African kingdom, a horrible prophecy hits three respectable dinners in the middle of a luxurious feast. A startling cautionary tale of a society convinced it has reached the pinnacle of sophistication. Science fiction writing at its best.
The History of England as presented by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant historian – Jane Austen
World War One. The Battle of Mons. In face of almost certain death, a despairing British soldier calls on St. George to save the heavily outnumbered army–with miraculous results.
During the Nakba, tens of thousands of keys disappeared. Their owners have replaced the iron keys of their houses with the keys of hope. The spark of hope awoke in them the moment the bulldozers had finished demolishing their houses. Childhood memories of an Arabic poet.
Did working class heroin of Soviet Russia survived torture by the Germans only to satisfy the sexual awakening of elementary school children who had to learn about her heritage?
Years after having lost her first husband in World War One, Katherine Farquhar finds herself re-married and traveling across Europe to join her sister in Baden-Baden. Along the way, she encounters a ghost that will forever alter her perceptions of love and marriage.
“The war, The war – but which war? How much have I longed for liberation from it and to forget the day that it broke out.” His lover left him and now an exiled Iraqi man stops to think whether the war and his longings for his home town Basra are the reasons she left.
The immigrants in Ellis Island are willing to do anything to get into America, the golden land. A beautiful Jewish girl is about to teach the doctor who decides their fate a lesson in survival.
Young Juanito is given an incomprehensible deed to execute, which leaves the fate of his entire family in his hands. “El Verdugo” – the executioner – is a dramatic tale based, according to its author, on an actual incident from the days of Napoleon’s war in Spain.
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