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La práctica de la Oración Centrante, que el Padre Keating presentó en su obra maestra Mente Abierta, Corazón Abierto, es el punto de partida del crecimiento espiritual. En el presente libro el autor detalla y explica las diferentes etapas de dicho proceso. En el curso de un sinnúmero de talleres y retiros espirituales se le hicieron muchas preguntas en relación con la práctica contemplativa: Cómo va a afectar a mi vida? Adónde me conduce espiritualmente? Qué obstáculos voy a encontrar a lo largo del camino? Por qué es necesaria? Cómo funciona? El autor nos dice en la Introducción que trata de dar a los lectores algo parecido a un mapa que les ayude en el camino que emprendieron con la oración centrante, y para resaltar algunos de los puntos culminantes de dicho camino, al igual que su destino final. La práctica regular de la oración contemplativa inicia el proceso de curación que podría denominarse la terapia divina. La oración contemplativa es una herramienta práctica y esencial para

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Con ventas de más de dos millones de ejemplares de la serie en inglés, esta marca ha permanecido firme durante más de dos décadas y se mantiene en las listas best seller.Este libro contiene una colección de historias de la Biblia relatadas de forma sencilla y está lleno de hermosas ilustraciones que dan vida a este clásico para alcanzar a una nueva generación de padres y niños. Es una manera perfecta de enseñarles a tus hijos historias importantes de la Biblia que tendrán una gran influencia en sus corazones.Incluye las historias favoritas de los niños como: la historia del bebé Moisés, Noé, Daniel, el nacimiento de Jesús, Jesús con los niños, el llamado de Jesus para amar y ayudar a los demás y muchas más. El formato es perfecto para las pequeñas manos de tus hijos y el precio bajo permiten que padres y abuelos puedan adquirirlo y usarlo como herramienta de enseñanza o para incluir en una cesta de pascua o en una bolsa de regalo y sorprender a los pequeñitos.¡Los niños aprenderán que este libro enseña grandes verdades de la Biblia!

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Thousands of books and articles examine nearly every aspect of the Civil War, but the important retreat of the armies from the Gettysburg battlefield to the Potomac River has been but little covered. Until now, no one had produced a critical analysis of the command decisions made during that fateful time based upon available intelligence. “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4 to July 14, 1863, by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus, now available in paperback, rectifies this oversight. This comprehensive day-by-day account, which begins after the end of the Gettysburg battle, examines how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln’s mandate to bring about the “literal or substantial destruction” of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s defeated and retreating Army of Northern Virginia. As far as Lincoln was concerned, if Meade aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape across the flooded Potomac River, “the rebellion would be over.” The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies. Both commanders faced the difficult tasks of rallying their troops for more marching and fighting. Lee had to keep his army organized and motivated enough to conduct an orderly withdrawal into Virginia. Meade faced the same organizational and motivational challenges with the added expectation of catching and defeating a still-dangerous enemy. Central to their decision-making was the information they received from their intelligence gathering resources about the movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received and directed his army accordingly. Prepare for some surprising revelations. Ryan and Schaus rely on a host of primary sources to craft their study, including letters, memoirs, diaries, official reports, newspapers, and telegrams. The threading of these intelligence gems creates a gripping narrative with a significant amount of new information—which the authors use to offer their own direct and often damning conclusions. “Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken” is a sequel to Thomas Ryan’s Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign (Savas Beatie, 2015), the recipient of the Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award and Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Distinguished Book Award.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Harlequín Grandes Autoras, 87Descripción: 288 p. 17x10 cmAcuciada por problemas económicos, Stephanie Collier se vio obligada a compartir su apartamento frente al mar. Pero pronto se dio cuenta de que vivir con Lloyd Barclay no iba a ser fácil. Tenían puntos de vista contrarios con respecto a casi todo. Pero los opuestos se atraen. Stephanie sabía que enamorarse sólo le complicaría la vida y Lloyd parecía estar de acuerdo. hasta la noche en que dejó muy claro que su relación platónica estaba a punto de cambiar!

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Thornton Wilder ganó su primer premio Pulitzer en 1927 por "El puente de San Luis Rey". "Nuestra ciudad", de 1938, y "Por un pelo", de 1942, le valieron otros dos premios Pulitzer. En "Nuestra ciudad", se enfrenta al drama de "la vida de una pequeña ciudad frente a la vida de las estrellas", un drama que consiste en "encontrar un valor por encima de cualquier precio para los acontecimientos más pequeños de nuestra vida diaria".

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En este libro he intentado hacer un enfoque paso a paso. Leyéndolo desde el principio hasta el fin, le guiará a través de todos los aspectos clave y evitará caer en las trampas de la preparación física en el fútbol, tal y como yo las veo. Sin embargo, dependiendo de su experiencia y sus objetivos (o si ya ha leído el libro de principio a fin) puede buscar tanto en este libro como fuera de él para obtener consejos específicos. Para este tipo de lectores, a continuación se muestra una visión global de los capítulos.

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Run, climb, crawl or jump - everybody loves to move! Fast or slow, up or down, alone or with our friends! Carol Thompson’s exquisite illustrations allow us to share the struggles, achievements and sheer delight of children exploring early movement. LITTLE MOVERS are perfect for building confidence and gaining control. Ready? One, two, three... Corre, trepa, gatea o salta… ¡A todo el mundo le gusta moverse! ¡Rápido o despacio, arriba o abajo, solo o con amigos! Las exquisitas ilustraciones de Carol Thompson nos permiten compartir los retos, los logros y el deleite que experimentan los niños explorando su movilidad. Los libros LITTLE MOVERS son ideales para fortalecer la confianza y adquirir control. ¿Listos? Uno, dos, tres…

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La Misa sobre el Mundo es una extensa oración compuesta por el jesuita Pierre Teilhard de Chardin durante la Gran Guerra y retocada años después mientras se encontraba solo en el desierto de Ordos en Mongolia. Se trata de un texto para entender cómo un cristiano puede transformar su vida y su muerte en una ofrenda capaz de abrazar el universo entero sobre el Altar del Mundo. Este libro ayuda a comprender la dimensión cósmica de la celebración eucarística y a orar a la manera de Teilhard durante las veces en los que le fue imposible celebrar la eucaristía.

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Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and suffering.But there has always been a shadow at the heart of Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease?In this quincentenary edition, published in conjunction with Somerset House, More's text is introduced by multi-award-winning author China Miéville and accompanied by four essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, today's most distinguished utopian writer and thinker.

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Mit dem Umzug in die wiedervereinigte Hauptstadt Berlin hat sich ein deutlicher Wandel in der Architektur und im Städtebau vollzogen. Die repräsentativen Regierungsbauten demonstrieren Selbstbewusstsein und eine Monumentalität, die es in Bonn nie gegeben hat, ja nicht geben durfte. Auffallend ist der Bezug zur klassischen Moderne eines Le Corbusier: Ohne Ornament, mit klaren geometrischen Grundfiguren, schlanken Stützen, skulpturalen Betonelementen und viel Glas wird Raum für die Politik geschaffen. Der Band ist ein idealer Begleiter durch das Berliner Regierungsviertel. Reich bebildert und mit fundierten Informationen versehen, beschreibt er die Bauten der Macht von damals und heute.

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Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902–74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential books and became instrumental in promoting the modernist design strategy called the New Typography. This substantial volume covers Tschichold’s life and career, placing the designer’s vision firmly in the rich cultural and historical context of his era. Tschichold embraced avant-garde ideas from movements such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl and made them accessible to working designers and printers, stressing clarity in communication, with form and function going hand in hand. The contributing writers discuss the designer’s major influences and the highlights of his varied career, including his seminal poster designs, his groundbreaking work with Penguin Books, and his creation of the classic typeface Sabon. Lavish illustrations – archive photographs, many published here for the first time, as well as copious examples of Tschichold’s work – accompany the text, confirming that Tschichold’s heritage lives on in the digital age, and proving that he is amongst the greatest typographic designers ever.

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Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all pre-seventeenth-century Robin Hood tales. The editors include such other "outlaw" figures as Hereward the Wake, Eustache the Monk, and Fouke le Fitz Waryn to further contextualize the tradition of English outlaw tales. In this text the figure of Robin Hood can be viewed in historical perspective, from the early accounts in the chronicles through the ballads, plays, and romances that grew around his fame and impressed him on our fictional and historical imaginations. This edition is particularly useful for classrooms, with its extensive introductions, notes, and glosses, enabling students of any level to approach the texts in their original Middle English.

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In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled “Toward a ‘World Literature’ in French,” signed by forty-four writers, many from France’s former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that they all spoke French, the manifesto’s proponents, the so-called francophone writers themselves, sought to energize a battle cry against the discriminatory effects and prescriptive claims of francophonie. In one of the first books to study the movement away from the term “francophone” to “world literature in French,” Thérèse Migraine-George engages a literary analysis of contemporary works in exploring the tensions and theoretical debates surrounding world literature in French. She focuses on works by a diverse group of contemporary French-speaking writers who straddle continents—Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Maryse Condé, Marie NDiaye, Tierno Monénembo, and Lyonel Trouillot. What these writers have in common beyond their use of French is their resistance to the centralizing power of a language, their rejection of exclusive definitions, and their claim for creative autonomy.

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This volume spotlights the visual arts, vision, and blindness during the Enlightenment in France, Britain, and Germany. The essays range from exploring the musical and cultural impact of an eighteenth-century virtuoso violinist to analyzing lotteries as romance in eighteenth-century England. Contributors and Contents: Mary Sheriff, The King, the Trickster and the Gorgon: On the Illusions of Rococo ArtBeverly Wilcox, The Hissing of Monsieur PaginJessica Richard, Lotteries and the Romance of Chance in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEmrys D. Jones, 'Friendship like mine / Throws all Respects behind it': Male Companionship and the Cult of Frederick, Prince of WalesDavid Hagan, Threading the Needle: Problems in Reading Dennis Diderot's La lettre sur les aveuglesJosephine Touma, From the Playhouse to the Page: Some Visual Sources for Watteau's Theatrical UniverseDaniel O'Quinn, Diversionary Tactics and Coercive Acts: John Burgoyne's Fete ChampetreShelley King, Portrait of a Marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the Sister ArtsDavid Fairer, Where Fuming Trees Refresh the Thirsty AirDorothea Von Mucke, Iconic Turn and the Power of Images: Goethe's Elective AffinitiesLaure Marcellesi, Louis-Sebastien Mercier: Prophet, Abolitionist, Colonialist

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Now the enchanting tales of King Arthur’s Camelot are an illustrated chapter storybook perfect for young readers!Thousands upon thousands of years ago, Welsh and English folklore told of an unusually brave, kind, and fair leader named King Arthur who protected his people from Saxon invaders in the fifth century. Medieval author Sir Thomas Malory collected, translated, and retold the folktales of King Arthur in his 1485 book Le Morte d’Arthur, which remains one of the most famous books of Arthurian legend to this day.Kid Classics: King Arthur is the thrilling new just-for-kids edition of the classic tales of King Arthur, abridged and retold for modern kids while staying true to the original Arthurian legends. It’s a story you can’t put down: Merlin guides young Arthur Pendragon to claim his throne as King of the Britons by pulling the sword Excalibur from the stone, and fantastical adventures ensue! Arthur nearly loses E

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Desde niño, Paul Theroux no es capaz de escuchar el silbido de un tren sin sentir un deseo imperioso de subirse a él. Ahora bien, al contrario que el viajero tradicional, que utiliza este medio de transporte de forma meramente utilitaria para llegar a su destino, lo que a Theroux le interesa son los ferrocarriles mismos. Quiere conocerlos todos, y para ello se propone ir desde la londinense estación de Victoria hasta Tokio saltando a todos los que encuentre a su paso.Este libro, la crónica de un viaje por Turquía, Extremo Oriente y Siberia con el tren como lugar de encuentro, inauguró un nuevo género de literatura de viajes.En la mejor tradición del viaje sin otro propósito que la diversión y la aventura. Una lectura compulsiva.Graham GreeneDivertido, sardónico, extremadamente sensible... y muy ameno.The New York Times

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Find out all about the different unusual bridges around the world, from see-through bridges to ones that look like dragons, in this photographic non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas. Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ eigh /ee/ e-e, ey, e, y /oo/ u /igh/ y /c/ ch /j/ g, ge, dge /l/ le /f/ ph /w/ wh /v/ ve /s/ se /z/ se Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Una guía para reformular nuestra visión del TDAH y aprovechar sus beneficios Con un 10% de los niños del mundo occidental que muestra indicios de tener trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad, o TDAH, y un número creciente de adultos autodiagnosticándose, después de décadas de lucha, debemos plantear la pregunta: ¿cómo pudo cometer tal “error” la naturaleza? En este libro, Thom Hartmann explica que las personas con TDAH no son anormales, desordenadas o disfuncionales, sino simplemente “cazadores en un mundo de agricultores”. A menudo muy creativos y resueltos en la búsqueda de un objetivo elegido por ellos mismos, las personas con síntomas de TDAH poseen un conjunto de habilidades mentales únicas, las cuales les habrían permitido prosperar en una sociedad de cazadores-recolectores. Como cazadores, habrían est

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Over five decades, the painter Humphrey Ocean RA's work has filtered into our national culture. This includes his series of portraits entitled A handbook of modern life displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2013; his portrait of Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy of Arts; and the cover of Sir Paul McCartney's 2007 album Memory Almost Full, which featured one of the Chair series. Ocean's practice encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, book-making and drawing. Of the last, he has said: 'Paper is lovely, immediate and personal. I draw as an end in itself.' In 2019 his exhibition 'Birds, Cars and Chairs' is on display at the Royal Academy of Arts. Of these subjects, he says: 'Birds, cars and chairs are, in that order, ancient, modern and intimate. Without them life would be a lot less bearable.' These works are reproduced alongside others in the book to provide a fascinating overview of Ocean's career, with an essay by Ben Thomas, which sets out to discover exactly what it is that makes Ocean's art so appealing and universal.

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Thomas Kyd fue uno de los iniciadores del teatro isabelino, el primero de la Edad Moderna que realmente influyó en el teatro de su país y que llegó incluso a crear un subgénero dramático (las Revenge Plays). Amigo del misterioso Marlowe, fue perseguido y acusado de ateísmo, lo que le supuso una pena de prisión, la pérdida de la ayuda económica de su mecenas y su caída literaria en desgracia, hasta el punto de que su nombre desapareció de las sucesivas ediciones de La tragedia española. La tragedia española fue un drama muy popular que superó incluso a las obras de Shakespeare y que se representó con frecuencia durante el periodo isabelino. Se trata de una pieza sangrienta en la que el asesinato de Horacio a manos del príncipe de Portugal desencadena una sucesión de animadversiones y desconfianzas que desembocan en un desenlace funesto.

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At Les Houches in January 2015, experts in the field of charged particle trapping came together for the Second Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles. This textbook collates the lectures delivered there, covering the fundamental physics of particle traps and the different types of applications of these devices.Taken as a whole, the book gives an overview of why traps for charged particles are important, how they work, their special features and limitations, and their application in areas such as precision measurements, mass spectrometry, optical clocks, plasma physics, antihydrogen creation, quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Chapters from various world experts include those on the basic properties of Penning traps and RF traps, as well as those covering important practical aspects such as vacuum systems, detection techniques, and different types of particle cooling, including laser cooling.Each individual chapter provides information and guidance on the application of the above methods. Additionally, each chapter is complemented by fully worked problems and solutions, making Trapped Charged Particles perfect for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students new to this topic.

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One highly visible example of French influence on the city of Philadelphia is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, modeled on the Champs-Élysées. In Salut!, Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan trace the fruitful, three-centuries-long relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and France. This detailed volume illustrates the effect of Huguenots settling in Philadelphia and 18-year-old William Penn visiting Paris, all the way up through more recent cultural offerings that have helped make the city the distinctive urban center it is today. Salut! provides a magnifique history of Philadelphia seen through a particular cultural lens. The authors chronicle the French influence during colonial and revolutionary times. They highlight the contributions of nineteenth-century French philanthropists, such as Stephen Girard and the Dupont family. And they showcase the city’s vibrant visual arts community featuring works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the Joan of Arc sculpture, as well as studies of artists Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. There is also a profile of renowned Le Bec-Fin chef Georges Perrier, who made Philadelphia a renowned culinary destination in the twentieth century.With lavish illustrations and enthusiastic text, Salut!celebrates a potpourri of all things French in the Philadelphia region.

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Los diarios escritos por Thomas Mann en el periodo de entreguerras acerca de su cotidianidad, su proceso creador y el tiempo convulso que le tocó vivir.Los Diarios de Thomas Mann permiten entrever mundos hoy desaparecidos: el buen hacer de un artista metódico con rutinas y placeres plenamente burgueses; la agitada escena intelectual de principios del siglo XX en Europa, en la que Mann ocupaba un lugar central y en la que reconocía el protagonismo de sus contemporáneos Gide, Kafka, Joyce o Proust; o el laboratorio de un novelista incansable, que trabajaba por acumulación hasta producir obras sólidas como monumentos. Por todo ello, estos Diarios son un libro imprescindible para entender cómo fue este escritor moderno. Pero en lo personal se trasluce también lo político, y aquí aparece un duro testimonio del exilio al que Mann partió con su familia a los sesenta años, en 1933, poco después de la ascensión de Hitler al poder. Ante la caída de su patria en la barbari

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A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century “What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Yet the times are such . . . that even honest moderates are driven to radical remedies.”—Robert Kuttner, New York Times As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology. These essays offer a first draft of history from one of the world’s leading economists and public figures, detailing the struggle against inequalities and tax evasion, in favor of a federalist Europe and a globalization more respectful of work and the environment.

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No es posible comprender la figura y la obra de Thomas Merton sin el conocimiento de su poesía. Merton necesitaba poner voz a lo que no cabe en palabras, y para ese caudal no le bastaba el cauce de la prosa.La relevancia de su poesía radica en que establece un diálogo continuo con el mundo, haciéndose así heredera no solo de la tradición bíblica veterotestamentaria, sino también de una amplia corriente de denuncia. Los poemas de amor y de disidencia de Merton se manifiestan como creación pero también como acción política, como una voz intempestiva y liberadora en sus hipótesis y evocaciones, metáforas y correspondencias.Esta antología bilingüe recoge una amplia selección de los poemas escritos por Merton entre 1940 y 1966, reflejos de la búsqueda de amor redentor que se cuentan, al mismo tiempo, entre los más poderosos instrumentos de subversión.

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Una novela sobre la magia de lasmarionetasFinalista del Premio Alemán del Libro 2020El Teatro de Marionetas de Augsburgo (Augsburger Puppenkiste) forma parte del ADN de Alemania desde que Jim Botón apareció por primera vez en los televisores del país en 1961. Thomas Hettche narra aquí su historia de un modo tan poético como ajustado a la realidad. El hilo del corazón es una gran novela sobre la fascinación que ejercen las marionetas y la voluntad inquebrantable de una niña que quiere dejar atrás la destrucción de la guerra.Tras una función del Teatro de Marionetas, unaniña de doce años cruza una puerta oculta y llega a un desván donde la esperan laprincesa Li Si, la parca, el gato Mikesch y una cigüeña parlante. Pero sobre todo conoce a la mujer que talló todos estos títeres, y que ahora le cuenta su historia: la de un antiguo teatro y de la familia que lo fundó y lo llevó a la fama. Comienza en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando Walter O

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