Una apasionante saga de fantasía épica. La apacible vida de Richard Cypher se ve truncada por el brutal asesinato de su padre. ¿Quién querría matar a un simple comerciante que no esconde ningún secreto? ¿O es que tenía alguno? ¿Está su muerte relacionada con el extraño libro que trajo de uno de sus viajes y que hizo aprender de memoria a su hijo Richard? De ser así, este también corre peligro. La búsqueda del asesino se convierte en una carrera contra el tiempo para salvar todas las tierras conocidas del dominio del mal. Para hallar respuestas, Richard deberá sacar a la luz emociones que ha reprimido durante mucho tiempo y confiar tanto en los viejos amigos como en los nuevos. Pero nadie es quien dice ser, ni siquiera él mismo.
Una saga de fantasía épica. Con la luna roja llegará la tormenta de fuego...Con la ayuda de la Espada de la Verdad, Richard Rahl se ha enfrentado a la propia muerte y ha acudido en defensa de los habitantes de D'Hara. Sin embargo, el emperador Jagang, ebrio de poder, enfrenta a Richard con un enemigo tan raudo como inexorable: una plaga mística que asola las tierras y acaba con miles de víctimas inocentes. Para apagar el infierno, debe buscar la solución en el viento...En su lucha, Richard y su querida Kahlan Amnell lo arriesgarán todo para descubrir el origen de esa temible plaga, en una magia escondida desde hace tres milenios en el Templo de los Vientos. Los rayos lo encontrarán en ese camino...Solo que, cuando la profecía arroja la sombra de la traición sobre su misión y amenaza con destruirlos, Richard debe aceptar la Verdad y encontrar una manera de pagar el precio que le exigen los vientos... o tanto él como su mundo perecerán.
Una saga de fantasía épica imprescindible. En un mundo tan extenso y real como el nuestro, Richard Rahl y Kahlan Amnell se enfrentan a las fuerzas ancestrales que asaltan el Nuevo Mundo, unas fuerzas tan terribles que, cuando se asomaron por última vez, solo se las pudo derrotar al sellar el Viejo Mundo del lugar del que procedían. Sin embargo, han logrado atravesar la barrera, y el Nuevo Mundo vuelve a verse asediado por su poder maligno. La guerra y la traición plagan el mundo, y solo Richard y Kahlan pueden salvarlo de un apocalipsis de una brutalidad y destrucción inconmensurables.
. Tras derrotar a Rahl el Oscuro, Richard se dispone a disfrutar de la máxima recompensa a la que podría aspirar: el amor de Calan. Pero, inadvertidamente, el joven rasgó el velo que separa el mundo del vivo del de los muertos y ahora debe enfrentarse al mal supremo, al temible Custodio del inframundo, que intenta escapar. Para vencerlo, Richard debe aprender a dominar sus incipientes talentos arcanos, pues de otro modo morirá. A no ser que Richard aprenda a controlar sus poderes, nadie, ni siquiera su amada Calan, la poderosa pero benevolente Madre Confesora, podrá salvar al mundo
'We have all caught fleeting glimpses of them: the monster under the bed, the dark shadow just out of sight, the knot of unexpected terror in the pit of your stomach' – Kahlan Amnell. The world has been forged anew. Tyranny vanquished, the breach between the living and the dead healed, the stars themselves realigned. It is the triumph Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan Amnell fought so hard, over so many years, for. Ruling a vast realm encompassing lands and peoples unknown, they have vowed to bring a golden age of peace to a world shattered by terror and war. What Richard does not expect is a demand for his immediate, unconditional surrender. Not of D'Hara, but of the entire world... The Scribbly Man is the first episode in Terry Goodkind's new serial novel, The Children of D'Hara. Told in irresistibly intense instalments, this is the story of a world confronted by an apocalyptic nightmare. If you've read Terry Goodkind before, welcome back. If you haven't, there's no better place to start than here. 'I want to introduce everyone to THE CHILDREN OF D'HARA, a new series that continues the story of the lives of Richard and Kahlan. This is a journey that began 25 years ago with the 1994 release of WIZARD'S FIRST RULE, when Richard first met Kahlan that fateful day in the Hartland woods. After the Sword of Truth series ended, I knew there was more to Richard and Kahlan's story. Much more. A whole world more. For years, readers have asked me about Richard and Kahlan's lives after the Sword of Truth series... and importantly, about their children. While my masterwork, Sword of Truth, concluded with WARHEART – 20 languages and 26 million books sold – I was burning to tell readers more about Richard and Kahlan. For that reason, this new series starts immediately after the 'Sword of Truth' books ended. Without skipping a beat, readers will plunge back into Richard and Kahlan's lives, with new episodes releasing every three months. So it is that I want to welcome you all back into the Sword of Truth world with many of the characters besides Richard and Kahlan, such as the Mord-Sith, that we have come to love. Learn what the star shift has done to their world and what monsters now lurk in shadows. I promise an arresting, beautiful, and sometimes tragic adventure that will keep you glued to this irresistible story.' – Terry Goodkind.
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
