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Block, un joven misterioso dotado de casi ilimitadas capacidades artísticas e intelectuales, llega a la ciudad de Países, donde conocerá a Agustín Montoliu, autor tardíamente visitado por la fama, a Jaime y a Estrella. En sus investigaciones en la Biblioteca Nacional, Jaime ha descubierto huellas de seres procedentes de una imaginaria Región Confabulada, y Jaime y Block se ponen en seguida a buscar la forma de entrar en esa Región.La música del mundo, subtitulada El efecto Montoliu, es una de las novelas más ambiciosas y sorprendentes de las últimas décadas. Podría ser considerada una novela sobre la juventud, o sobre el arte y su aprendizaje, o una novela filosófica, o de amor, o fantástica e incluso detectivesca, o una novela basada en estructuras afines a las de la música, pero, siendo en alguna medida todas esas cosas, es algo distinto de la mera yuxtaposición de ellas: la creación de la cartografía entera de un país imaginario, la inesperada confluencia de legados

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Pasear por la ciudad en una tarde de verano puede ser muy aburrido... a no ser que uno vaya en compañía de alguien como el tío Leopoldo. El tío Leopoldo ha viajado por el África Austral y ha cazado leones, y varias veces ha descendido al interior de volcanes en erupción. Cuando era joven estudió ingeniería (los ingenieros son los que hacen las máquinas, los puentes, los aviones y cosas así). Bueno, o al menos, todo eso es lo que cuenta; porque con el tío Leopoldo, uno nunca sabe lo que es cierto y lo que no lo es tanto. Lo único indudable es que, junto a él, nunca se sabe lo que va a pasar...Con su carnet de la biblioteca (que usa para hacerse pasar por agente secreto), sus trolas siderales y sus manías inesperadas, el tío Leopoldo va sembrando el caos a la hora de la siesta. Pozos de los deseos que cumplen con retraso, historias dentro de historias dentro de historias, suplantaciones de identidad, escritores de misterio que se roban ideas procedentes de los Grandes Almacenes Geniales,

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Build solid software with modern and safe concurrency features. Concurrency is one of the hardest problems in computer science. For years, computer scientists and engineers have developed different strategies for dealing with concurrency. However, the original concurrency primitives are complicated and difficult to understand, and even harder to implement. Using the new async/await APIs in Swift, this book will explain how your code can abstract a lot of the complexity with a simpler interface so you never have to deal with concurrency primitives such as semaphores, locks, and threads yourself. This will allow you to write concurrent code that is easier to read, easier to write, and easier to maintain. These new APIs are deeply ingrained into Swift, offering compile-level features that will keep you from writing dangerous concurrent code. You’ll start by exploring why concurrency is hard to implement in a traditional system. Explaining the definition of concurrency and what its primitives are will help you understand why they are hard to use correctly. These concepts will become clearer as you work through the sample projects. The book’s focus then shifts exclusively to the new APIs, helping you understand how the integration of the system with the language itself makes it easier for you to write concurrent code without overstepping the bounds of the concurrency safe zone. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation for working safely with concurrent code using the new async/await APIs.What You'll Learn Understand concurrency and its traditional problems Work with the new async/await API and all its features, from the basic usage and await keywords, to task groups and async sequences. Implement modern and safe concurrent code that you can start using right away Who This Book Is For Experienced iOS developers at a semi-senior or senior level. Knowledge on the Grand Central Dispatch is a bonus, but not required.

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WINNER OF SPAIN'S NATIONAL CRITICS AWARD The epic literary adventure that has transfixed readers and critics alike in Spain Almost four hundred passengers are on board the Boeing 747 en route from Los Angeles to Singapore. Only a handful will survive the crash. Washed ashore on a tiny island with no means of contacting the outside world, tension and fear threaten to overwhelm the group. But as they endeavour, day by day, to survive, they find themselves forced to confront the reality of the lives they left behind. Written in deftly cinematic prose, Andrés Ibáñez’s stunning novel is already considered a modern classic in Spain, expertly translated here by Sophie Hughes. 'Ibáñez is, quite simply, a genius' La Vanguardia

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