Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states

Erotic, love story. Familiar cronic of one of the most passion stories of the modern literature.

The Secret Agent is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory.

The book crackles with authenticity in describing present day Cuba, and the story line -- involving left behind warheads from the missile crisis and a plot by Cuban refugees to "blow up" the 40th anniversary celebration of the revolution -- comes across as very plausible. The novel reads truest when focusing on historical matters and reportage. "Sins of the Father" should appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in the missile crisis and the political-economic-social conditions of our offshore neighbor.

"It was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. It also served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music. "

When we don’t deserve the opportunity to ask for forgiveness, letters enable us to believe we can recover lost friendships. "Los amigos que perdí" are Manuel’s letters to the friends he hopes to regain.