A Million Drops

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF VÍCTOR DEL ÁRBOL’S NEW NOVEL BREATHING THROUGH THE WOUND Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and Crime Reads An intense literary thriller that tears through the interlocked histories of fascism and communism in Europe without pausing for breath. Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, with a failed career, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. When, after no news for years of his estranged sister, Laura, he learns that she has committed suicide under dramatic circumstances, his fragile life as both a father and a husband is pushed to the limit. Resolutely investigating the steps that led his sister to suicide, Gonzalo discovers that Laura is suspected of having murdered a Russian gangster who had kidnapped and killed her young son. What seems to be revenge is just the beginning of a tortuous path that will take Gonzalo through the untold annals of his family’s past. He will examine the fascinating story of his father, Elias Gil, the great hero of the resistance against fascism. As a young engineer his father traveled to the USSR committed to the ideals of the revolution, but was betrayed, arrested, and confined on the infamous Nazino Island, and became a key figure, admired and feared, during Spain’s darkest years. Suspenseful, dark, and thrilling, A Million Drops is a visceral story of enduring love and revenge postponed that introduces a master of international crime fiction to American readers.

Collection of 25 selected poems that offer an easy, enjoyable, and insightful reading. The poems touch life, society, and the environment with their calm, gentle, sometimes sharp words and metaphors. The charm of these well-crafted and evocative poems lies in their simplicity of expression, depth of feelings, and radiating messages the way they should be. Some poems fascinate some intrigue, and some influence at varying degrees and dimensions.

It has been revised and brought up-to-date in accordance with the latest syllabi, to meet the needs of the students and teachers alike. This book has been prepared to enable the students to give a correct and to the pint answer to questions set in the examination. The answers have been arranged under various heads and subheads to faciliate the students

P, a school bus driver and family man with a growing gambling habit, finds his life spinning out of control as he struggles to keep up with his escalating addiction.