El verano en el que rompimos las normas

Un arrollador carrusel de personajes y de historias irresistibles y divertidas,y al mismo tiempo el retrato de la Italia más auténtica y profunda.Ambientada en la época fascista italiana, La hermana del funambulista presenta una galería de personajes...

Durante muchos siglos los seres humanos hemos dependido de las instituciones y doctrinas que nos guiaban en la experiencia de Dios o de la Conciencia. A medida que nos acercamos al Alba de una Nueva Era, estamos aprendiendo a confiar más en nuestra propia intuición para experimentar la Divinidad que tenemos en nosotros mismos. Un día, los sacerdotes de Zoroastro le preguntaron a Issa: ¿Cómo puede servir un pueblo con las normas de justicia si no tiene preceptores?. - Les respondió entonces Issa: Cuando el pueblo no tenía sacerdotes, la Ley Natural les gobernaba y conservaba el candor...

Henrietta St. Bernard grows up in the 1960s, a member of a large family of French-speaking Canadian immigrants trying to survive in an English-speaking country. She is the only child born with the St. Bernard thumb—a pimple-like mass on her chin that finally goes away when she is three months old, leaving a brown spot on her chin from age three. From an early age, Henrietta experiences severe abuse from her parents and, to a lesser degree, her older siblings. They called her ugly and stupid, eventually settling on the nickname “La Folle”—the crazy girl. As she gets older, the abuse...

Peter Jernigan is barely over forty, lives in a suburb in New Jersey with his teenaged son Danny, and works in a New York real estate agency. Intelligent, but lacking success, Jernigan flounders through his ordinary life, from which neither his addictions nor his sarcasm can save him. His eccentricity and the recent death of his wife drag him towards a tortuous decadence. But things seem capable of changing when he meets Martha Peretsky, his son’s girlfriend’s divorced mother, and the two begin a promising relationship. This is the entertaining story of a man who, guided by his worst...